At a glance
The inventory’s budget planner multiplies a chosen confirmed-page scope by editable USD rates. It does not prove that those pages require remediation, price unseen pages or issue a quote. Decide which sources still need to be published and reviewed before using the full inventory as a work estimate.
Select work before assigning a rate
An inventory measures a collection, not a remediation obligation. Some files are obsolete, already usable or better replaced at the source. Others are essential forms or notices that deserve early review regardless of length.
Choose confirmed unique pages if the same byte-identical source will be handled once. Choose a URL-based footprint only if your plan truly requires separate work for every publication. Document the assumption, then list excluded and unknown files beside the scope rather than burying them in a contingency percentage.
- Review document use, owner and current version.
- Select a confirmed page scope with a clear duplicate rule.
- Enter rates from your intended supplier or your own scenario.
- Review complex work, fixed fees and unknown scope separately.
Published prices are examples, not a market average
The report planner can provide dated published service examples as a starting band, with its sources and date visible. A small set of vendor prices is not a traditional-market average or an upper bound. Forms, mathematical content, drawings, signatures, source quality and acceptance requirements can change a real quotation.
Our free cost calculator uses explicitly illustrative, editable defaults. Enter your own low and high assumptions and any contingency you want to test. The calculator makes the arithmetic inspectable; it cannot decide whether a supplier’s scope or acceptance process meets your needs.
Keep the estimate tied to evidence
Record the inventory date, confirmed page basis, unresolved discovery gaps and the source of your rates. Show a lower and upper scenario instead of presenting one precise number as a finished procurement estimate.
For a decision that commits funds, ask suppliers to examine representative documents and define deliverables, review coverage and correction responsibilities. Sampled PDF profiles can inform that conversation, but they should not silently set prices or stand in for a document review.
| Assumption | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Unique or URL pages | Avoid repeated source work |
| Current in-scope documents | Separate inventory from actual work |
| Rate and evidence date | Make the scenario reproducible |
| Uncounted and unseen scope | Keep additional work visible |
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Sources and scope
Methods, worksheets and illustrative examples are DocAccessible editorial contributions. These references support the technical or product details described above. W3C techniques are informative guidance; they are not a certification scheme.
- DocAccessible PDF inventory
The counting workflow, report options and purchase boundary.
- DocAccessible remediation options
The different output paths and their review requirements.
Written by the DocAccessible team under our editorial policy. Suggest a correction if a source or product detail needs updating.
See the evidence in a working example
Explore the public sample inventory report to try its table, full-screen view and missing-count reasons. The downloadable counting fixture check records what the local counter returned for seven self-authored inputs, with hashes and explicit limits.