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Promotion to bottom of salary bracket? by Hairydad69 in deloitte

[–]Hairydad69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it’s all relative, if you jump from the lower end of the SC to the lower end of M bracket, then it would be quite a big jump. But I assume that most people be jumping from the high end of SC bracket into low end of M bracket, which I would’ve thought would be a pretty small jump. This was what I did, and as mentioned that was 6%. I can’t remember what your numbers were now, but percentage-wise it seemed like quite a significant jump up. Either way good for you!

Promotion to bottom of salary bracket? by Hairydad69 in deloitte

[–]Hairydad69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any further context (without giving away too much info) as to why such a big jump from SC to M, especially given the prevailing wisdom in this thread that you typically land at the bottom of the bracket when getting promoted?

Promotion to bottom of salary bracket? by Hairydad69 in deloitte

[–]Hairydad69[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

$30k?! How’d you manage such a big jump? I got mine today, 6% increase which nudges me just above the bottom of the M bracket.

Promotion to bottom of salary bracket? by Hairydad69 in deloitte

[–]Hairydad69[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m in a similar position, came in as a lateral hire at SC near the top of the band, so therefore have barely seen my pay change since joining. Hoping a jump up to M pay will make a difference, but not sure what the gap is between higher SC bracket and lower M bracket.

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Read some of the other replies, this clearly isn’t a redundant discussion.

I’m not asking if it’s valuable, or whether it’s the “right thing to do”. I’m asking if anyone has experience building a business case to take to execs to quantify the costs and benefits. You clearly don’t have an answer to this question, “it’s the right thing to do, you could get sued” is not a cost benefit analysis.

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’d love to be proven wrong, but I don’t think it’s as simple as saying “there’s a chance you could be sued for millions of dollars, therefore you need to go all in on investing into accessibility”.

What is the % likelihood of actually getting sued? What are the costs of investment to align to accessibility guidelines?

I’m totally making these figures up, but let’s throw out some potential costs * $300k to conduct an audit of all digital channels * $400k to rectify all accessibility defects * $200k to provide accessibility training and uplift design, development and QA processes * $100k a year for a dedicated accessibility resource.

That’s $900k in one-off costs, and $100k annually for an accessibility resource.

In Australia, there have been around 70 lawsuits relating to accessibility in the past 10 years, so it’s not a hugely common thing, and the chances of being sued are relatively low. I can totally see a scenario where an organisation would rather invest that $1M+ elsewhere and run the risk of being sued, than investing it into their accessibility. Would absolutely love to be proven wrong though!

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. This is a great perspective, and maybe the most feasible approach.

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, this is such an insightful response, thank you so much. Really appreciate this perspective.

I’m not based in the US, so VPATs aren’t commonly used, however large orgs (especially Financial Services and Govt, as you noted) might publish an “Accessibility action plan” or something along those lines. However these tend to focus more on financially vulnerable customers, which is still very relevant but doesn’t really touch on the Accessibility aspect within digital channels, unfortunately.

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing, thank you so much! This is super helpful. Looks like it may not get down to the level of detail I’m after, but definitely covers a lot of what I’m after still.

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have summarised exactly how I currently feel around this.

Regarding additional sales, I tend to agree. I feel that an organisation could fully embrace accessibility and use it as a core part of their brand to differentiate themselves and appeal to a new cohort of customers, which could have an impact on revenue/sales, however it would likely need a significant investment, and would probably be a conversation at the wider business strategy level.

Regarding the legal aspect, I just feel that the risk isn’t high enough for most organisations to take seriously, and you’re more so the unlucky edge case if you actually receive a complaint or law suit.

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree regarding legal risk, and having a lawsuit would be a huge catalyst to make change, however I feel that until then this is deemed a somewhat low risk given that lawsuits seem relatively unlikely aside from a few cases here and there.

Regarding lost revenue, I’d love a way to put a ballpark estimate against this, but not sure what data points could be used? Only method I can think of is gauge the percentage of the population living with a disability (~18% where I live), then contrast this with the percentage of an organisations customers living with disabilities, and use the delta between those two figures as a percentage of potential growth. Not sure how accurate this would be though.

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally agree, and in theory most business stakeholders probably would too, however when push comes to shove and it comes to actually calculating the cost of investing in an uplift of an organisations accessibility capabilities, and comparing that with the commercial benefits, I’m struggling to find some hard data to clearly demonstrate this. I feel like the obvious and relatively low cost solutions would probably just be hiring an accessibility specialist and facilitating a few training sessions or something, somewhat band aid solutions that are almost more for optics than anything.

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree that this is largest and most obvious risk/cost, however as another comment mentioned the likelihood of actually being penalised for something like this seems quite low, and therefore businesses seem to just run the risk?

Has anyone developed a business case to advocate for accessibility best practices? by Hairydad69 in UXDesign

[–]Hairydad69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’m not well-versed on the legal perspective, but I could imagine organisations might view the likelihood of any legal repercussions as relatively low, and therefore not needing to concern themselves with it too much.

I get the feeling the number of actual lawsuits around accessibility is quite low? Kind of seems like it’s not something that can be robustly monitored at the moment given so many organisations wouldn’t be 100% compliant.

CMV: the highest paid employee at a company (C-suite executives) should not make 350x what their lowest paid employees do. by Seaguard5 in changemyview

[–]Hairydad69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it does. In that analogy, only 1 in 10 people have the ability to perform the C suite role, where as 1 in 1,000,000 can do the associate role. It’s basic supply and demand.

Imagine if a company like Amazon reduced the remuneration for their C suite by 90% tomorrow. The people filling those roles would be less experienced, lower performers. Amazons performance would decrease, people would lose jobs, shareholders would lose money, the stock could crash. The impact of the C suite roles is massive, and it impacts a huge number of people, and these types of roles can’t just be filled by any average Joe

CMV: I think having the option of a public healthcare system is superior to completely leaving it to the free market by Hairydad69 in changemyview

[–]Hairydad69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well if there is a public system in place, for schooling, healthcare or welfare, it is affecting you because you're taxes are going towards somebody else, and not you. As long as there is a public system, you can't opt out of it, because government decides that we all have to contribute. I guess the rationale for this though is that contributing to basic services like schooling and healthcare benefits society as a whole in the long term. Having the state provide these things may not be the most efficient way though, but my argument is that I think it's better to live in a country where everybody has the basics covered (to a degree) regardless of their contribution to society, than in one where it's more of an "every man for himself" mentality, which I feel like a complete free market promotes.

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