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From: Maraikayar Prem Nawaz
Date: Aug 6, 2013 5:50AM

Hi,

Thanks Patrick for bringing in the issue of Bootstrap Accessibility.

BootStrap is used by more than 1% of the Web
http://blog.meanpath.com/twitter-bootstrap-now-powering-1-percent-of-the-web/
Which means more and more websites share these Inaccessible components (
http://expo.getbootstrap.com/) . Their main focus is on
Mobile,performance,etc., and NOT on Accessibility.

I agree with Patrick comment:
"BootStrap Developers lack the interest, time and knowledge to commit to
accessibility"
As you could clearly see from the accessibility issues filed, that many of
them are closed even without any actual work on the fix.
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/search?q=accessibility&type=Issues
Probably what they need probably is a push for Accessibility. We could
create new github tickets( https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/new) and
try to push. I will also try to work for this in my free time.

And as Jennifer rightly said it takes lot of time to work on the fix,
though the fix may be small.
Patrick, you know what i mean. You had to get back to the issue couple of
times, before it got merged to wip. (
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/6441) .
But I could see that the developers are trying hard to fix some of the
issues (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/9137).



Regards
-Nawaz
Twitter: @mpnkhan





On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> On 02/08/2013 16:34, Greg Gamble wrote:
> > I don't think that’s a good assessment of the TW Bootstrap
> > originators,
>
> I was only paraphrasing some of the concerns others have previously
> raised about difficulties in getting accessibility into the agenda of
> big frameworks. As I said, my own experience has been nothing but
> positive, but nonetheless I posit that it is because what I pushed for
> was in easily-committable format already, rather than just being a
> general "this is broken and needs to be fixed somehow" comment/issue
> post, is all.
>
> Cheers,
>
> P
> --
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