Web Experience Toolkit (WET)

The Web Experience Toolkit is free software for building websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual.

Download v4.0

Why use the Web Experience Toolkit?

Accessible and Usable

Complies to the Government of Canada's Web Standards. WCAG 2.0 AA compliant so it is accessible to persons with disabilities. Iterative approach to design.

Growing community

Openly developed on Github by a diverse community of contributors. Multi-level review process for contributions to ensure code integrity. Become a member!

Mobile-friendly

Responsive, light-weight pages make it desktop and mobile friendly. It has touchscreen support and has optimized performance.

Interoperable

Supporting a wide variety of browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera). Building support for HTML data (RDFa 1.1 Lite, Schema.org). Leverages native HTML5 support.

Award-winning

Award-winning code library for building innovative websites. Known for its efforts in reducing research and development costs.

Flexible and reusable

Licensed for non-commercial or commercial reuse (MIT license). Reusable plugins, widgets, and 5 themeable templates that can be enhanced through CSS. Adapted to various CMS and programming frameworks.

Let’s get started

What are you waiting for? Learn more about how the Web Experience Toolkit is built and what's included. We'll cover the basics and help you start building!