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Re: How can a government agency equate compliance or accessibility to dollars?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Mar 25, 2015 9:03AM

> I think that equating dollars to success/failure may be the way to go in this particular environment. Do you have any suggestions on how that can be done?

The US Access Board commissioned a regulatory assessment as part of the Section 508 refresh. You may find some items in there to get you started. Many of the benefits to society and the impact on ICT outside of the government are hard to quantify but are real.

http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-ict-refresh/preliminary-regulatory-impact-analysis#h5

Jonathan

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