Consultancy
A flexible package of ongoing consultancy and support, arranged to suit your needs.
Benefits
- Allows you to draw on a number of days of CFIT availability over an extended period;
- Organised around your development programme to provide the help and assistance you need, when you need it;
- Supports the growth in knowledge and skills within your development team over time;
- Choose from a wide range of planned or ad hoc activities;
- Open-ended and flexible, plans can be altered as you go along.
An accessibility audit or user test may uncover many areas of difficulty, but what do you do with the results? How do your designers and developers implement the required changes? Accessible design requires a learning process, in which designers first understand and then learn to incorporate accessibility into their designs without compromising on functionality and aesthetics. During this process, designers need to be able to ask questions, raise concerns, experiment with new techniques and get feedback from experienced accessibility practitioners.
That’s where CFIT’s flexible approach to consultancy, mentoring and support can help you.
What do you get?
We can tailor a package of activities to suit your needs. This may include:
- On-site mentoring for designers and developers
- Regular review and feedback sessions
- Email and telephone help desk support
- Accessibility audits
- Informal user testing sessions
The emphasis is on providing the kind of help you need when you need it. Activities such as review and feedback sessions can be scheduled on a weekly or fortnightly basis. User testing or expert accessibility audits can be scheduled to coincide with the development release schedule. Our help desk facility is always available to you.
Consultancy time is provided in blocks of 5 days, arranged in advance. It is up to you how you want to use that time, so, for example, a single 5 day block might provide all of the following:
- A half-day review and feedback session every week for six weeks.
- A day of training in accessibility auditing for a developer.
- Seven hours of email and telephone support
What does it cost?
A block of 5 days costs €3,000, paid for in advance. As NCBI is a registered charity, we do not charge VAT, so this is the final price.