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From: Peter Shikli
Date: Jul 17, 2017 2:13PM

Jonathan,

The Access Board report was helpful in detailing what a nationwide
cost-benefit analysis looks like for accessibility, and it listed factors I
should consider in a cost-benefit model targeting a specific accessibility
issue, but I'm searching for a more granular model. Let's say, for
example, that an agency received an accessibility complaint related to a
particular website function. I'd like to provide a cost-benefit
spreadsheet model into which they can enter their situation's specific
parameters to do the what-if scenarios supporting various remediation steps
for their particular situation.

The IBM link sounded more relevant, but they too provided cost-benefit
study results aggregated across different sized businesses. Their cost
tables gave useful remediation items for me to consider, but their PDF was
a list of Powerpoint slides that sometimes needed explanation.

Thanks for your thoughts,
Peter




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Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Accessibility Cost Benefit Analysis
Model
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:12:06 +0000
From: Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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Peter, have you looked at the Regulatory Impact Analysis that the US
Access Board had commissioned as part of the Section 508 refresh?
https://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/
about-the-ict-refresh/final-regulatory-impact-analysis Phil Jenkins @ IBM
also put together a costing model for accessibility
https://www-03.ibm.com/able/education/downloads/IBM_WCAG_2.0_Compliance_Cost
ing_Model_CSUN13.pdf Jonathan Jonathan Avila Chief Accessibility Officer
Level Access, inc. (formerly SSB BART Group, inc.)
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