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From: Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO
Date: Wed, Mar 25 2015 8:36AM
Subject: How can a government agency equate compliance or accessibility to dollars?
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Government §508 projects, such as standing up automation support for testing, or making any other sort of costly, time consuming, or non-trivial change, seems to take forever and/or never reach completion. Such projects get peoples' "spare time" and even "spare people." My theory is that §508 isn't typically considered "mission-oriented," so it is seemingly overlooked, ignored, or de-prioritized.
I'm looking for a way to communicate the urgency and necessity to others to a cross-functional project team. I think that equating dollars to success/failure may be the way to go in this particular environment. Do you have any suggestions on how that can be done?
From: Don Mauck
Date: Wed, Mar 25 2015 8:39AM
Subject: Re: How can a government agency equate compliance or accessibility to dollars?
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For me, I always say that "the difference between being proactive and reactive is about 8 zeros". I'm not kidding, it certainly can be.
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From: Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
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Government §508 projects, such as standing up automation support for testing, or making any other sort of costly, time consuming, or non-trivial change, seems to take forever and/or never reach completion. Such projects get peoples' "spare time" and even "spare people." My theory is that §508 isn't typically considered "mission-oriented," so it is seemingly overlooked, ignored, or de-prioritized.
I'm looking for a way to communicate the urgency and necessity to others to a cross-functional project team. I think that equating dollars to success/failure may be the way to go in this particular environment. Do you have any suggestions on how that can be done?
From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Wed, Mar 25 2015 9:03AM
Subject: Re: How can a government agency equate compliance or accessibility to dollars?
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> I think that equating dollars to success/failure may be the way to go in this particular environment. Do you have any suggestions on how that can be done?
The US Access Board commissioned a regulatory assessment as part of the Section 508 refresh. You may find some items in there to get you started. Many of the benefits to society and the impact on ICT outside of the government are hard to quantify but are real.
http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-ict-refresh/preliminary-regulatory-impact-analysis#h5
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Government §508 projects, such as standing up automation support for testing, or making any other sort of costly, time consuming, or non-trivial change, seems to take forever and/or never reach completion. Such projects get peoples' "spare time" and even "spare people." My theory is that §508 isn't typically considered "mission-oriented," so it is seemingly overlooked, ignored, or de-prioritized.
I'm looking for a way to communicate the urgency and necessity to others to a cross-functional project team. I think that equating dollars to success/failure may be the way to go in this particular environment. Do you have any suggestions on how that can be done?
From: Robert Fentress
Date: Thu, Mar 26 2015 7:52AM
Subject: Re: How can a government agency equate compliance or accessibility to dollars?
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Hi, Steve.
Maybe these documents from IBM would be helpful to you with cost arguments
and estimations:
IBM's WCAG 2.0 Compliance Costing Model
https://www-03.ibm.com/able/education/downloads/IBM_WCAG_2.0_Compliance_Costing_Model_CSUN13.pdf
Cost Savings of Early Accessibility
http://www-03.ibm.com/able/education/downloads/CostSavingsofEarlyAccessibility-CSUN-2012_accessible_IBM.pdf
Hope some of that helps!
Best,
Rob
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO <
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> Government §508 projects, such as standing up automation support for
> testing, or making any other sort of costly, time consuming, or non-trivial
> change, seems to take forever and/or never reach completion. Such projects
> get peoples' "spare time" and even "spare people." My theory is that §508
> isn't typically considered "mission-oriented," so it is seemingly
> overlooked, ignored, or de-prioritized.
>
> I'm looking for a way to communicate the urgency and necessity to others
> to a cross-functional project team. I think that equating dollars to
> success/failure may be the way to go in this particular environment. Do
> you have any suggestions on how that can be done?
> > > >
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