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Re: Cost of Web accessibility, yet again

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From: Glenda
Date: Oct 5, 2004 3:32PM

Thanks Julian,

To be honest, I prefer doing the audit, which details what needs to be done
and why, and then let "their people" do the grunt work. It avoids the "ok,
could you change this and that too" and then I'm not responsible for any
goof ups. So, in that case, the total costs are out of my hands.

From my understanding ( I don't drive ), once the mechanic knows what is
wrong, he can give a fairly accurate estimate that that it will cost [in
time or money ] to replace the brake pads, align the tires, whatever -- like
there is a rate list. Is there something like that in web accessibility?
Something I could include in my audit or am I asking for the moon here?

I am thinking of something like:

- include ALT tags @ 30seconds / ALT * 10 = 5 mins
- convert layout table to CSS @ .75hr/"simple" table = 1.5hr
- etc

Of course it would still be an ESTIMATE, but it may comfort business people
having a rough approximation of cost. I am thinking in order to have
business buy into web accessibility, we need to speak business language.
Are we any where close to providing such information? Or is there another
approach I'm missing?

Cheers,
Glenda