diff --git a/components.html b/components.html
index 4c52d59f3d..7031647d63 100644
--- a/components.html
+++ b/components.html
@@ -1285,8 +1285,8 @@ body { padding-bottom: 70px; }
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
-            <form class="navbar-form pull-left" action="" role="form">
-              <input type="text" class="form-control col-lg-8" placeholder="Search" role="search">
+            <form class="navbar-form pull-left" action="" role="search">
+              <input type="text" class="form-control col-lg-8" placeholder="Search">
             </form>
             <ul class="nav navbar-nav pull-right">
               <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
@@ -1355,8 +1355,8 @@ body { padding-bottom: 70px; }
               <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
               <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
             </ul>
-            <form class="navbar-form pull-left" action="" role="form">
-              <input type="text" class="form-control col-lg-8" placeholder="Search" role="search">
+            <form class="navbar-form pull-left" action="" role="search">
+              <input type="text" class="form-control col-lg-8" placeholder="Search">
             </form>
           </div><!-- /.nav-collapse -->
         </div><!-- /.container -->
@@ -1405,8 +1405,8 @@ body { padding-bottom: 70px; }
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
-            <form class="navbar-form pull-left" action="" role="form">
-              <input type="text" class="form-control col-lg-8" placeholder="Search" role="search">
+            <form class="navbar-form pull-left" action="" role="search">
+              <input type="text" class="form-control col-lg-8" placeholder="Search">
             </form>
             <ul class="nav navbar-nav pull-right">
               <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
@@ -1917,13 +1917,13 @@ body { padding-bottom: 70px; }
     <p>Build on any alert by adding an optional <code>.alert-dismissable</code> and close button.</p>
     <div class="bs-example">
       <div class="alert alert-dismissable">
-        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
+        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
         <strong>Warning!</strong> Best check yo self, you're not looking too good.
       </div>
     </div>
 {% highlight html %}
 <div class="alert alert-dismissable">
-  <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
+  <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
   <strong>Warning!</strong> Best check yo self, you're not looking too good.
 </div>
 {% endhighlight %}
diff --git a/css.html b/css.html
index fa738f09ea..ee15c30e9b 100644
--- a/css.html
+++ b/css.html
@@ -2032,10 +2032,10 @@ For example, <code>&lt;section&gt;</code> should be wrapped as inline.
     <h3>Close icon</h3>
     <p>Use the generic close icon for dismissing content like modals and alerts.</p>
     <div class="bs-example">
-      <p><button type="button" class="close">&times;</button></p>
+      <p><button type="button" class="close" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button></p>
     </div>
 {% highlight html %}
-<button type="button" class="close">&times;</button>
+<button type="button" class="close" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
 {% endhighlight %}
 
     <h3>.pull-left</h3>
diff --git a/javascript.html b/javascript.html
index c3a6b0a323..db3053f224 100644
--- a/javascript.html
+++ b/javascript.html
@@ -478,10 +478,43 @@ $('.dropdown-toggle').dropdown()
     <h3>Methods</h3>
     <h4>$().dropdown('toggle')</h4>
     <p>Toggles the dropdown menu of a given navbar or tabbed navigation.</p>
+
+    <h3>Events</h3>
+    <div class="bs-table-scrollable">
+      <table class="table table-bordered table-striped">
+        <thead>
+          <tr>
+            <th style="width: 150px;">Event Type</th>
+            <th>Description</th>
+          </tr>
+        </thead>
+        <tbody>
+          <tr>
+            <td>show.bs.dropdown</td>
+            <td>This event fires immediately when the show instance method is called.</td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>shown.bs.dropdown</td>
+            <td>This event is fired when the dropdown has been made visible to the user (will wait for CSS transitions, to complete).</td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>hide.bs.dropdown</td>
+            <td>This event is fired immediately when the hide instance method has been called.</td>
+          </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <td>hidden.bs.dropdown</td>
+            <td>This event is fired when the dropdown has finished being hidden from the user (will wait for CSS transitions, to complete).</td>
+          </tr>
+        </tbody>
+      </table>
+    </div><!-- ./bs-table-scrollable -->
+{% highlight js %}
+$('#myDropdown').on('show.bs.dropdown', function () {
+  // do something…
+})
+{% endhighlight %}
   </div>
 
-
-
   <!-- ScrollSpy
   ================================================== -->
   <div class="bs-docs-section">
@@ -1144,14 +1177,14 @@ $('#myPopover').on('hidden.bs.popover', function () {
     <p>Add dismiss functionality to all alert messages with this plugin.</p>
     <div class="bs-example">
       <div class="alert fade in">
-        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
+        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
         <strong>Holy guacamole!</strong> Best check yo self, you're not looking too good.
       </div>
     </div><!-- /example -->
 
     <div class="bs-example">
       <div class="alert alert-block alert-error fade in">
-        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">&times;</button>
+        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
         <h4>Oh snap! You got an error!</h4>
         <p>Change this and that and try again. Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum.</p>
         <p>
@@ -1167,7 +1200,7 @@ $('#myPopover').on('hidden.bs.popover', function () {
 
     <h3>Markup</h3>
     <p>Just add <code>data-dismiss="alert"</code> to your close button to automatically give an alert close functionality.</p>
-    {% highlight html %}<a class="close" data-dismiss="alert" href="#">&times;</a>{% endhighlight %}
+    {% highlight html %}<a class="close" data-dismiss="alert" href="#" aria-hidden="true">&times;</a>{% endhighlight %}
 
     <h3>Methods</h3>
 
diff --git a/less/carousel.less b/less/carousel.less
index 8d31d7e494..d94108de5c 100644
--- a/less/carousel.less
+++ b/less/carousel.less
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
     margin-left: -10px;
     font-family: serif;
   }
-  // Non-glyphicon toggles
+
   .icon-prev {
     &:before {
       content: '\2039';// SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (U+2039)
@@ -181,7 +181,6 @@
 @media screen and (min-width: @screen-tablet) {
 
   // Scale up the controls a smidge
-  .carousel-control .glyphicon,
   .carousel-control .icon-prev,
   .carousel-control .icon-next {
     width: 30px;