Senior Accessibility Specialist - Fully Remote
Senior Accessibility Specialist - Fully Remote Leading software company is looking for a Senior Accessibility Specialist to join their team. This is a contract and fully remote position. Shift of the Senior Accessibility Specialist: 8 AM – 5 PM Pacific Time (1 hr lunch) Responsibilities of the Senior Accessibility Specialist:
- Build and maintain relationships, credibility, and trust with business, product, and technical partners
- Evaluate, define, and when required, prototype appropriate approaches for any proposed accessibility solution
- Assisting internal delivery teams with ongoing development processes and implementation of accessibility throughout the software development lifecycle
- Run automated scans and manual assessments on web pages to identify accessibility issues, suggested fixes, and priorities
- Help design and development teams understand accessibility requirements, available tools, solutions, and prioritization
- Provide developers with technical advice during code reviews and pair programming during sprints
- Staying up to date on modern web development practices and new versions of WCAG requirements
- Other duties assigned
Qualifications of the Senior Accessibility Specialist:
- Deep knowledge of WCAG 2.2, ARIA, and ACRs/VPATs
- Expert with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver and assistive technology like ZoomText or Dragon. Expert using various automated testing tools like Axe, WAVE, Lighthouse, etc.
- Experience working collaboratively with product teams to design, developing applications that are accessible and tested end-to-end
- A relevant combination of education and experience in front-end development
- Expert level understanding of HTML, CSS, working knowledge of JavaScript and reasonable familiarity with frontend frameworks like, Angular or React
- 7-10 years of experience with accessibility standards and guidelines (WCAG, WAI-ARIA) and assessing digital materials (Interfaces, PDFs, etc.) to meet standards
- 7-10 years of experience developing, designing or maintaining desktop, mobile and responsive web applications with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery)
- Proven ability to identify and put into action creative approaches to accessibility challenges and problems
Senior Accessibility Specialists apply today! DAVIS Companies partners with the top employers locally and nationally. They choose us because of our reputation for finding high quality talent, fast, but also our experience for evaluating and representing the best candidates in the marketplace. We make every effort to provide updates and feedback to candidates at each stage of the process as we appreciate how stressful looking for a new role can be. Apply today and experience “The DAVIS Difference”. Apply Job!