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Re: Making Bootstrap more accessible...

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Aug 1, 2013 6:39PM

On 02/08/2013 01:19, Elle Waters wrote:
> Please add our team to any discussions or plans. We have been having
> similar talks with others in the accessibility community and some of
> our clients. We'd love to participate in a Bootstrap a11y-a-thon to
> pool our resources and improve the framework.

Great idea, but to be clear: I was not proposing a concerted effort
myself...I was merely putting out an obvious reminder that rather than
asking Bootstrap devs to "make it more accessible" (in vague terms) or
to go off and make demos of changes that can't be immediately pulled in
upstream by the devs without extra work, is not the most likely approach
to get fixes in.

Instead, fork the Bootstrap github repo, study their contribution
requirements (and yes, they're a pain, as you'll need to have a whole
build environment with node.js etc), make appropriate patches, and then
pull-request them back.

Also, don't be afraid to just make tiny changes - it doesn't have to be
one giant code dump that touches every single file. In fact, small,
focussed changes are likely to be more easily merged, as they'll require
less testing for regression or unforeseen side effects on the part of
the maintainers. My example of mostly doubling-up :hover styles to also
act on :focus was trivial enough...but was merged in very quickly
because of its simplicity. Tiny incremental changes, rather than one big
rewrite...