How long until your website is accessible?
The traditional model of accessibility consulting goes like this:
1. You spend a few weeks shopping around for an accessibility consulting firm and a few more weeks working out the procurement details.
The consulting firm tests the site and issues a report.
Your team goes through the report, translates the report’s content into tickets into Jira (or whatever issue tracking tool you use), then gets to work on fixing the site.
How long does the above process take? Well, just Step 2 can take 2-3 months. Don’t believe me? Here’s the data
Statistic | Days |
|---|---|
Min | 6 |
Max | 252 |
Mean | 71 |
Median | 41 |
Mode | 28 |
The above information is based on hundreds of audits performed throughout my career.
What’s not shown above is the amount of time it will take your team to fix what the audit found.
In the above Twitter poll, almost 72% of respondents said it took their team 91+ days to fix all (or most) of the issues discovered in the audit. In fact, only 11% said it took 0-30 days.
Direct remediation is faster, cheaper, and more effective than audits
Now that AFixt has been around for about a year and a half, we now have the data to definitively state that not only is direct remediation faster, but also cheaper. Using the same data, you’re looking at a range of $22k - $30k for your typical audit.
Contrast that with direct remediation from AFixt: The historic data at AFixt shows that average time for a fully remediated site is 30 person-days at an average rate of $11k - $14k.
As is always the case, bigger projects take more time and cost more money, but the data doesn’t lie: Our expert developers are better, faster, and cheaper at bringing your site into compliance than getting an audit, after which you’re left to your own devices to fix the issues.
What’s holding you back from getting started now?
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