Accessibility Compliance Review Capacity Estimator

1. Enter the team size
Use the number of people who will actually perform or directly complete the reviews during the period.

2. Set weekly review hours
Enter the average hours each reviewer can allocate to this review program, not total paid hours unless all paid time is available for review work.

3. Enter average review time
Use the typical active minutes needed to complete one accessibility review, including routine documentation if it is part of the workflow.

4. Apply a productive-utilization rate
Use a percentage below 100% when reviewers also spend time on meetings, handoffs, research, escalations, or administrative work.

5. Add the current backlog
Enter the number of open items if you want an estimate of how long the existing queue would take to clear at the calculated capacity.

6. Review the capacity outputs
Compare weekly, monthly, and annual capacity with the backlog estimate. Re-run the scenario with different staffing or handling-time assumptions when planning changes.

The estimator converts available staff time into productive review minutes, then divides by average minutes per review.

Monthly capacity = Weekly capacity × 52 ÷ 12. Annual capacity = Weekly capacity × 52. Backlog clearance time = Backlog items ÷ Weekly capacity.

Where: reviewers is the active review headcount; hours per reviewer is weekly time allocated to this program; utilization is the share of allocated time expected to be productive; and minutes per review is average handling time. The backlog estimate assumes no new items enter the queue and that the entered productivity assumptions remain stable.

What the result means

The main result is the estimated number of accessibility reviews the team can complete in a typical week under the entered workload assumptions.

This calculator is a planning aid. It does not determine legal obligations, establish a required compliance period, or replace advice from qualified legal, accessibility, environmental, procurement, or compliance professionals.

Given: 5 reviewers, 24 hours per reviewer per week, 42 minutes per review, 72% productive utilization, and a backlog of 360 items.

Calculation:
Productive minutes = 5 × 24 × 60 × 0.72 = 5,184 minutes/week.
Weekly capacity = 5,184 ÷ 42 = 123.4 reviews/week.
Backlog time = 360 ÷ 123.4 = 2.9 weeks.

Result: About 123.4 reviews per week, or 534.9 per average month.

Interpretation: Under these staffing and handling-time assumptions, the current backlog would require roughly 2.9 weeks to clear if no new work arrived.