Use these guidelines to budget for making digital content accessible. Public websites and content delivered via websites (e.g., PDFs, embedded videos) carry more risk because of their broad reach. Use your Siteimprove report to determine how many web pages and PDFs you need to fix.

These are estimates for budget exercises. Vendor rates vary by complexity of content.

If you have a customized site, you may also have to remediate code at $50-100/hour.

Easy checks

Here are some easy checks for your websites and videos, including manual checks with the keyboard. Perform these easy checks recommended by the W3C.

Dependencies

• Skill level. An expert can remediate faster than a beginner. While it is commendable for someone to want to learn while on task, we also encourage investing in their training to learn to do it right the first time so after the deadline the content that gets posted is already accessible.
• Complexity. Complex images and complex tables take longer to remediate.
• Duration. The time length of pre-recorded multimedia files.
• Source file availability (for conventional docs, PPT, PDF).
• Pricing structure and discount rates. For example, some PDF vendors charge by page or charge by the hour. For PDFs and Multimedia remediation, vendor volume discounts may apply such as the 3Play Media + UC Discounted Rates for Captioning and Transcription.

Vendors

For a list of PDF vendors, check out our Accessibility Vendors list.