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Re: Making Bootstrap more accessible...

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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Aug 2, 2013 9:34AM

" From my own experience, the Bootstrap maintainers are no different from the majority of developers out there: they often lack the interest, time and knowledge to commit to accessibility."



I don't think that’s a good assessment of the TW Bootstrap originators, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton. They have a different idea of how things should be done is all. A good example is the alert colors and any text in them. They don't pass a contrast check, and they know that. But they are using stoplight functionality ... red is error, yellow is a warning and green is ok. Any Text is just extra information, that is not needed to get the point across.



Some more info on the stop light idea:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511283.aspx

" That said, the interpretation of red, yellow, and green for status is consistent globally. This is due to the UNESCO Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, which defines the worldwide convention for traffic lights (where red means stop, green means proceed, and yellow means proceed with caution). You can use these status colors without concern for culturally dependent interpretations."



Any framework is going to require work to be not only pleasing to the eyes, but accessible to those who need it. TW Bootstrap is probably the best of them all, It’s not perfect, but requires less work than most. JMO …



Greg