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Re: Cost of Web accessibility, yet again

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From: Glenda
Date: Oct 7, 2004 12:17AM






Thanks. However, I'm in Canada and
American legislation isn't relevant here, in this case. The client would
be partaking in web accessibility voluntarily, based on its merits and
benefits. Besides, I thought last week we were discussing it may be best
to keep web accessibility out of the court system. Cheers,

Glenda

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[WebAIM] Cost of Web accessibility, yet againFrom 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. >;>;>; <EMAIL REMOVED> 10/5/2004 4:33:28 PM
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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