Re: WCAG 2.0 AA and Zurb Foundation

>From my experience with Zurb, their solutions are not great in term of
a11y. I’d say Bootstrap is much better in that regard.
Things may have changed in the last year but it didn’t seem they have had
strong a11y people working on the product in the past.

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Daniel Koskinen <
daniel.koskinen@zeelandfamily.fi> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Looking at this from a web developer perspective, Zurb Foundation is
> almost as mainstream as you can get, its main "competitor" being Bootstrap.
> Foundation strives to be accessible, and states in its docs that
> "Foundation for Sites is a fully-accessible framework": http://foundation.
> zurb.com/sites/docs/accessibility.html. I couldn't however find any
> statement on WCAG AA conformance, but I don't know how useful that would be
> anyway since the framework is meant to be used as a base, not as is.
>
> regards,
> Daniel Koskinen
> Website Services Lead
> daniel.koskinen@zeelandfamily.fi
> +358 45 6336124 <+358%2045%206336124>
>
> On 28 July 2017 at 01:38, Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you look at similar front-end frameworks that have incorporated
>> accessibility, such as Open Ajax - see http://oaa-accessibility.org/
>>
>> I do not know of any organizations working with Zurb's Foundation.  If
>> it's not mainstream and accessible, why work on it (unless it is also being
>> specifically designed for a narrow user group, like AAA success criteria
>> could be applied to it?
>> ___________
>> Regards,
>> Phill Jenkins
>> pjenkins@us.ibm.com
>> Senior Engineer & Accessibility Executive
>> IBM Research Accessibility
>> linkedin.com/in/philljenkins/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/philljenkins/>
>> ibm.com/able <http://www.ibm.com/able>
>> facebook.com/IBMAccessibility <http://www.facebook.com/IBMAccessibility>
>> <http://ageandability.com/>twitter.com/IBMAccess
>> ageandability.com
>>
>>
>>
>> From:        Mark Weiler <mweiler@alumni.sfu.ca>
>> To:        "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>> Date:        07/27/2017 04:35 PM
>> Subject:        WCAG 2.0 AA and Zurb Foundation
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know of organizations working with Zurb's Foundation to
>> create a web application frontend framework of UI components that is
>> intentionally designed to be conformant with WCAG 2.0 AA (I'm mindful that
>> some responsibilities would still reside with the user of the framework)
>>
>> Such a group would be mindful of techniques to meet the specific success
>> criteria, cognizant of the need for both automated and manual tests, and
>> mindful of the need for regression testing before integrating changes into
>> the code base.
>>
>> An example of a strong statement of WCAG conformance might be something
>> like the Section 508 statement here:
>> *https://assets.cms.gov/resources/framework/3.4.1/Pages/#accessibility*
>> <https://assets.cms.gov/resources/framework/3.4.1/Pages/#accessibility>
>>
>> or
>>
>> "The Assets.CMS.Gov website is tested on an iterative basis for
>> conformance with the Section 508 requirements"
>> *https://assets.cms.gov/resources/framework/3.4.1/Pages/#governance*
>> <https://assets.cms.gov/resources/framework/3.4.1/Pages/#governance>
>>
>> Example organizations might be: governmental agencies or non-profits
>> organizations in the US, United Kingdom, or Europe.
>>
>>
>>
>