Accessibility subscription vs traditional engagements
Hiring, freelancers and retainers can all make sense. The right choice depends on what you need to change.
If you only need extra hands, a traditional engagement may be enough. If accessibility issues keep showing up late, your team needs more than a list of fixes. They need help making better decisions while real work is happening.
That is where my subscription helps. It gives Product, Design, Engineering and QA access to accessibility support as they design, build, test and ship. The goal is to help your team kill rework by making better decisions before small issues become expensive fixes.
What are you really trying to solve?
Most buying options look similar when the problem is described as "we need accessibility help." They look very different when the problem is described as "our team keeps creating rework."
That difference matters because you are not only buying expertise. You are choosing how that expertise reaches your team.
- Training someone on your team can work if you have time, a willing person and enough support around them. It's slower, and it can put too much pressure on one person to become the accessibility answer for everyone else.
- Hiring a full-time specialist can be a great option if you have the budget, enough work for the role and time to hire well. For many growing teams, that is too much too soon.
- Hiring a freelancer or consultant can help with specific problems, but it often turns into scope discussions, waiting for availability and work that sits outside your team's normal rhythm.
- Using a retainer gives you access, but many retainers still rely on you knowing exactly what to ask for. If nobody starts the conversation, the value quietly fades.
A subscription is different because the support stays close to delivery. We can review work before too much has been built the wrong way, answer questions when they come up and turn repeated confusion into better ways of working.
With a subscription, your team gets:
- access to accessibility help while real work is happening,
- support across Product, Design, Engineering and QA,
- help deciding what matters now and what can wait,
- clearer review questions, QA checks and implementation guidance,
- a fixed monthly cost that is easier to plan around and
- the option to pause or cancel before the next billing month.
Kill accessibility rework before it slows delivery.
Work with me as an extension of your product team, so accessibility gets handled while decisions are still easy to change.
How the subscription compares
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| Employee | Hourly billing | Project fee | Retainer | Subscription | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No payroll expenses | |||||
| No training required | |||||
| No long-term contract | |||||
| No proposals | |||||
| Can pause before next billing period | |||||
| Can cancel before next billing period | |||||
| Response time guaranteed | |||||
| Turnaround time guaranteed | |||||
| Costs are predictable |
When my subscription is the better fit
My subscription is a good fit when accessibility is already part of your product risk, but nobody has found a practical way to make it part of everyday delivery.
It's especially useful when your team is shipping often, responsibilities feel fuzzy and accessibility issues keep arriving too late. That's where ongoing support can help your team catch problems earlier, stop fixing the same things twice and feel more confident about what they ship.
Ready to choose the model that kills rework?
Start with the subscription page. You can compare plans, book a no-commitment discovery call and decide whether this is the right fit for your team.
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