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

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Mar 26, 2015 7:52AM

Hi, Steve.

Maybe these documents from IBM would be helpful to you with cost arguments
and estimations:

IBM's WCAG 2.0 Compliance Costing Model
https://www-03.ibm.com/able/education/downloads/IBM_WCAG_2.0_Compliance_Costing_Model_CSUN13.pdf

Cost Savings of Early Accessibility
http://www-03.ibm.com/able/education/downloads/CostSavingsofEarlyAccessibility-CSUN-2012_accessible_IBM.pdf

Hope some of that helps!

Best,
Rob

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Government §508 projects, such as standing up automation support for
> testing, or making any other sort of costly, time consuming, or non-trivial
> change, seems to take forever and/or never reach completion. Such projects
> get peoples' "spare time" and even "spare people." My theory is that §508
> isn't typically considered "mission-oriented," so it is seemingly
> overlooked, ignored, or de-prioritized.
>
> I'm looking for a way to communicate the urgency and necessity to others
> to a cross-functional project team. 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?
> > > >



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