Hey Guys This is a service industry, provide cost based on how much the will cost you to do (i.e. long the work takes you to do). Implementing standards may save you time or add extra development time.
For example I feel that CSS based design takes less time and as such should cost less that a design that has font tags & hidden graphics everywhere. Sure the client gets a better end result, but this is a competitive advantage to you not something that you want to be charging more for. A site can be made significantly accessibile by just developing it properly in the first instance. No extra hours should be required to get pretty close to "A" level compliance. If "AAA" level compliance is a stated requirement for a project then extra time will be needed to put in the extra coding and testing effort - this should be costed on just like any other work. Learning curve is your problem, hours spent on development is your clients problem. Cheers Mark ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
