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From: joe
Date: Jun 10, 2020 9:00AM

Hi Barbara,

Working for a consulting company (The Paciello Group) I have a little
insight.

If you have a lot of pages for all your sites and most pages in a site have
similar templates, content, etc. I think a automated scan will help find
issues with the templates or common content (header, navigation, footer,
etc.) that may not be part of the manual review.

The automated scan will generally find 1000's of issues, reporting the same
exact issue on each page where it exists. This can help you get more bang
for your buck and Identify common issues across a large number of pages.
Having said that, automated tests are limited to what they can automatically
test so they may miss issues or have false positives/negatives.

In terms of re-review, this can be helpful to ensure that your developers
correctly addressed any issues discovered during the manual review. This
requires that fixes have been completed other wise the re-review will report
the same unfixed issue. A re-review can be important if you are documenting
your conformance for legal or business reason.

Often, when my company is contracted to do a re-review a VPAT (Voluntary
Product Accessibility Template) is part of that work and documents the
accessibility of the "product" at that point in time.

So both options can be worth the money, but you will need to decided that.

Hopefully this helps.

Thankx,
Joe Humbert
Accessibility Champion
Android & iOS Accessibility Novice