Accessibility Roadmap and Timelines

This question asks for your concrete plan to achieve and maintain accessibility, with specific dates and milestones. It's like a construction timeline showing when each floor of a building will be wheelchair accessible. Buyers want to see you've thought through the work required, allocated resources, and committed to deadlines rather than vague promises of future improvements.

A detailed roadmap can salvage deals even when your current accessibility isn't perfect. It shows enterprise buyers you're serious about compliance and gives them confidence to move forward with contingencies. Without a roadmap, you appear unprepared and risky. The roadmap also helps you budget resources, prioritize fixes based on user impact, and communicate progress to customers facing their own compliance deadlines.

Vague roadmaps without specific deliverables or dates are worthless to buyers. Another mistake is creating unrealistic timelines that you'll miss, destroying trust. Teams also often focus only on fixing current issues without planning for maintaining accessibility in new features. Don't forget to include testing, documentation, and training in your roadmap, not just development work.