Architecture, accessibility and IT cost diagnostic
Three weeks to map your digital system, measure the accessibility of your public website, put a figure on what the whole thing really costs and name the dependencies that expose you.
- Duration
- 3 weeks
- Format
- Fixed scope
- Deliverable
- Map of the system, RGAA accessibility audit, priced inventory of subscriptions and suppliers, prioritised action plan
- Who it is for
- Tourist offices, local authorities and SMEs with no IT department
You know a public website has to be accessible, that the mandatory notice is not at the bottom of your page, and that someone will eventually ask you about it. You also know you pay for subscriptions whose use you no longer remember, and that if your supplier disappeared tomorrow you would not know where the keys are. What you do not have is the time and the vocabulary to put those three questions to someone who has nothing to sell you afterwards.
The diagnostic answers all three in three weeks, in a single document. Accessibility is measured on your website as it stands, with the method the administration uses to check it, and you leave with the documents to publish. Costs are matched line by line against what you actually use. Dependencies are named: who can block you, on what, and what it takes for that to stop being the case.
The report is written for a director, not for an IT department. Each finding says what it costs to do nothing, what the fix costs and who can do it. The action plan is ranked so that you can deal with the top of the list only, if the budget allows no more.
What you keep at the end: the map, the audit report, the three accessibility documents, the cost inventory and the action plan, all in your own files. The diagnostic commits you to nothing else. It can be followed by a fix from your supplier, by a fractional direction engagement, or by nothing at all. The price is set in the written note that follows the first call; a fresh accessibility measurement after the fixes is offered separately, never included silently.
What you get
- A one-page map of your digital system: the website, hosting, email, business software, the flows between them, and who holds each access.
- An accessibility audit of your public website against the RGAA, the French public-sector standard, on a sample of ten to twenty-five page types agreed with you, with every gap found, its severity and the fix to apply.
- The three documents the accessibility obligation requires you to publish, ready to go online: the accessibility statement, the multi-year plan and the current year's action plan.
- A priced inventory of all your digital subscriptions and contracts, with the duplicates, the services nobody uses, and what you can cancel from next month.
- The list of dependencies that expose you: the supplier who alone holds the domain name, the backup nobody has tested, the access that rests on a single person.
- An action plan ranked by urgency and cost, which you can hand to your current supplier, to another one, or to me, without the diagnostic committing you to anything.
How it runs
Week 1: collection
One interview with you, one with the person who runs the website day to day, and a reading of your contracts, invoices and access. You provide what you have; what you cannot find is part of the findings.
Week 2: examination
Accessibility tested page by page on the agreed sample, hosting, backups and access verified, subscriptions matched against actual use. You are not called on that week.
Week 3: handover
The report reaches you two days before a one-hour video call. You come out of it with the action plan, the accessibility documents to publish and the figures to decide what you do next.
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