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Re: Cost of Web accessibility, yet again

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From: John Gugerty
Date: Oct 6, 2004 7:18AM





From a slightly larger
perspective, note the potential legal costs and time costs if accessibility is
omitted/overlooked/neglected, and someone files an OCR/504/ADA complaint. Once
that process starts, life can get very interesting very fast.
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Thanks Julian,To be honest, I prefer doing the audit, which
details what needs to be doneand 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 anygoof 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 iswrong, he can give a fairly accurate estimate that
that it will cost [intime or money ] to replace the brake pads, align the
tires, whatever -- likethere 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- etcOf course it would still
be an ESTIMATE, but it may comfort business peoplehaving a rough
approximation of cost. I am thinking in order to havebusiness buy into
web accessibility, we need to speak business language.Are we any where close
to providing such information? Or is there anotherapproach I'm
missing?Cheers,Glenda