WCAG Compliance CheckEstimate effort instead of inventing a market price
Enter page-template count, extra interaction states, testing hours per template/state, reporting hours, retest hours and your quoted or internally approved hourly rate. All amounts use one currency. The sample is fictional and is not a vendor price or a promise that the selected hours are sufficient.
Worked estimate
Eight templates at 1.5 hours each require 12 hours. Six extra states at 0.5 hour add three; reporting adds three. Initial effort is 18 hours. Four retest hours produce 22 hours total. At the illustrative hourly rate of 80, the modelled cost is 1,760 in that rate’s currency.
What changes the estimate
Interactive workflows, document remediation, assistive-technology coverage, multiple platforms and repeated failures can change effort. Distinguish evaluation from fixing the product. This calculator budgets the entered testing/reporting work only; it does not include remediation unless you separately model those hours.
Validate a quote
Ask what templates, states, documents, devices and testing methods are included. Clarify deliverables, evidence quality and retest scope. A low fee that covers only an automated scan is not equivalent to a documented manual review. Use real provider terms and record the assumptions with the result.
Review after a pilot
Test a small representative flow and compare actual effort with the forecast. Revise the time assumptions when context or test coverage changes. Export the estimate as text and preserve the source JSON and rate evidence. This output is a planning aid rather than a purchasing authorisation.