Interactive componentsīootstrap’s interactive components-such as modal dialogs, dropdown menus and custom tooltips-are designed to work for touch, mouse and keyboard users. This documentation aims to provide developers with best practice examples to demonstrate the use of Bootstrap itself and illustrate appropriate semantic markup, including ways in which potential accessibility concerns can be addressed. Structural markupīootstrap’s styling and layout can be applied to a wide range of markup structures. However, provided that these have been implemented correctly, it should be perfectly possible to create websites and applications with Bootstrap that fulfill WCAG 2.0 (A/AA/AAA), Section 508 and similar accessibility standards and requirements. The overall accessibility of any project built with Bootstrap depends in large part on the author’s markup, additional styling, and scripting they’ve included. Lighthouse - Chrome plugin for web testingīootstrap provides an easy-to-use framework of ready-made styles, layout tools, and interactive components, allowing developers to create websites and applications that are visually appealing, functionally rich, and accessible out of the box.ChromeVox screen reader plugin for Chrome.
WAVE Chrome plugin - free accessibility checker.“HTML Codesniffer” bookmarklet for identifying accessibility issues.
In addition to using an automated tool set, it is recommended to perform manual tests. If you must use a background image, decrease the brightness, and increase the opacity.Although there are many automated tools available for testing website accessibility, none of them can effectively check everything for you.
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