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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Aug 2, 2013 10:18AM

Greg and Patrick, along with any others who may be following this thread:

While you've made your relatively positive remarks here on list
several times, Greg, there are plenty of other people, both on and
off list, who have found some real issues, but perhaps they don't
impact what you're building.

Patrick, while I appreciate your points, I think the people on and
off this list, with whom I've communicated, aren't the code guru that
you are. If we were, we'd not be trying to talk about this with
others on Twitter and on the list (to try to coordinate an effort);
we'd be doing exactly as you suggest. I noticed your acknowledgement
that not everyone is a coder, and I do appreciate that.

The problem that I see, here (and that I'm experiencing), is that the
people with whom I work are having to spend their time figuring out
how to fix Bootstrap, which limits their time to contribute back to
the community. It seems a bit of a vicious cycle to me, but I suppose
that is how it goes in the land of open source.

I'll close by providing this link, in case somebody has time to parse
these into pull requests, in smaller "chunks," as Patrick suggests.
Thanks, Maraikayar Prem (Nawaz), for jumpstarting the effort. Now
that Bootstrap 3 is out, maybe accessibility can move up the priority ladder:

See:
http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/javascript.html

I'll continue to do my own part to encourage those with whom I'm
working to contribute back if they can find the time; I'll cross my
fingers that they'll already have the environment set up in order to do so.

Thanks to any who have time to dig in and get this very widespread
framework to incorporate accessibility into its core, both in terms
of code and philosophy.

Best,
Jennifer