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From: Wilson, Jordan
Date: Jul 30, 2018 12:01PM

This is a very slippery slope - I've seen vendors who do go out of their way to include accessibility (and accessibility costs) into RFPs have to back out of it because adding A11y costs into a project when their competitors do not prices them out of the RFP.

I spoke about this at Accessing Higher Ground last year because its becoming a big problem - I recommend that agencies include accessibility as a line item in their RFP responses for this reason. Don't include it in the core prices so that your client can see that its in there and can differentiate your response from others.

Ideally everyone includes a11y, but we're not there yet.

I'd love to see a panel on this at CSUN in the future - many of us work with 3rd party design agencies and there's fear of liability there.

Jordan