# wet-boew/wet-boew

Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Open source code library for building innovative websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. This collaborative open source project is led by the Government of Canada.

Repository: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wet-boew
Homepage: https://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/index-en.html
Language: Handlebars
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: accessiblity, multilingual, framework, web, wcag
Last push: 2026-08-25T13:47:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 93, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5227, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 49, "gap_med": 21, "n_releases_24m": 28}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1733, forks 658 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:28.923238+00:00)

## What it is
The Web Experience Toolkit (WET) is an open-source front-end framework led by the Government of Canada for building accessible, usable, mobile-friendly, and multilingual websites. It provides themeable templates, reusable components, and plugins that conform to WCAG 2.0 Level AA and leverage WAI-ARIA.

## Use cases
- build an accessible government website that meets WCAG 2.0 AA
- create a multilingual website supporting 34 languages including right-to-left
- make a responsive mobile-friendly site with reusable UI components
- apply the Canada.ca theme to a Government of Canada web page
- ensure a site works with assistive technologies using WAI-ARIA
- build a themeable website with accessible templates and plugins

## When to choose
- you need WCAG 2.0/2.1 AA accessibility compliance out of the box
- you are building a Government of Canada or public-sector website
- you need strong multilingual and right-to-left language support
- you want tested, accessible reusable components and templates

## When to avoid
- you are building a modern SPA with React, Vue, or similar frameworks
- your project has no accessibility or multilingual requirements
- you want a lightweight minimal CSS/JS solution without government-specific theming
- you need a framework with a large commercial ecosystem and community

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: frontend-framework, ui-components, templating, accessibility, internationalization
- domain: web-development, frontend, accessibility, e-government
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: wcag, government-of-canada, responsive-design, multilingual, wai-aria, handlebars, progressive-enhancement, localization, web-server

## Member repositories
- wet-boew/wet-boew (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.923238+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:31:28.889399+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.923238+00:00, sha 827333714831)
  - homepage: https://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/index-en.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:13.804264+00:00, sha 52eb2919525b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.