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From: Roberto Modica
Date: Mar 1, 2007 5:40AM

It all depends on the company; to be honest I see it as part of the general
workflow of my designs so I don't really charge any extra unless it is a
larger scale project and some more prolonged tests are required, but you
could argue this is part of testing more then accessibility. The reason
being is a lot of accessible features can be accomplished just through
general good practice of web development. There are "grey" areas such as if
you have a form of media that cannot be made accessible, video or other such
technology, then transcripts would have to be produced, but again this may
not fall to your web developer that content may have to be produced by you
and given to your developer to implement.

I honestly feel that accessibility is a tool for web developers and is
something we should learn, like we learnt CSS and XHTML. It should be part
of the general workflow of your web design. If it is a retrofit project,
then costs should be associated as you are then providing a direct service,
but not a new design.

Regards,

Rob

Roberto Modica
Modika Limited
www.modika.co.uk


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Subject: [WebAIM] development time and accessibility

(*Apologies for the cross-posting.)

Hello,

I am interested to here from folks who have actually gone through the
exercise of planning for, costing and implementing accessibility-related
activities into a web development project as part of their project's life
cycle. I was recently quoted a statistic thatstated that this activity
added 8 to 10% on a project's development time.

Does this statistic hold true?

Thanks,
Jennison