Lead Digital Accessibility Engineer
The Judge Group Inc.

Job Info

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Location: REMOTE
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Lead Digital Accessibility Engineer

Responsibilities:

Under the guidance of Accessibility Center of Excellence leadership, collaborate with product teams across the enterprise to promote the need for accessible products and services.

Serve as the lead on client projects, providing direction to and mentoring digital accessibility engineers and Grow Your Own program participants, reporting status updates to project team leadership and Accessibility Center of Excellence leadership, and handling any issues that arise regarding talent, timelines, and deliverables.

Participate on a large project or initiative, such as the Engineering Standards (mobile or web), researching and documenting best practices for usability and accessibility, documenting and sharing use cases to help promote accessibility best practices, helping to promote decisions made to peers and clients.

Perform accessibility assessments. May include web pages, desktop applications, mobile applications and documents, such as PDFs, PPTs, etc., with the (preferred) ability to assess and remediate PDF, Word and other documents so they confirm to current standards, including WCAG and PDF/UA.

Document assessment results via available reporting templates and tools.

Write Rally or Jira user stories based on the standard accessibility user story template and following guidelines in place.

Research and stay aware of new development frameworks for the purpose of assisting developers in creating accessible products.

Support the Accessibility Center of Excellence by researching and writing posts for team websites.

Write curriculum and lead accessibility training for peers and clients.

Apply HTML, CSS, JavaScript and ARIA knowledge to digital properties as part of client engagements and governance processes.

Identify new opportunities to support and contribute to the growth of the Accessibility Center of Excellence.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS in information technology, information design, computer science, human computer interaction (HCI), instructional design, quality assurance, assistive technology or related field, or equivalent industry training and experience.

• 3+ years of experience working in roles related to accessibility engineering.

• 2+ years working as a digital accessibility engineer, analyst or tester.

• Working knowledge of user-centered design principles and tools.

• Strong understanding of Agile development methodology.

• Advanced knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

• Knowledge of Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines and specifications.

• Familiarity with WCAG.

• Exposure to or familiarity with how to use design pattern libraries for client products.

• Advanced knowledge of assistive technology and accessibility-related software, including JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, ZoomText, Dragon NaturallySpeaking or other speech recognition software.

Must Have:

• 2+ years working as a digital accessibility engineer

• 5+ years working in a fast-paced and highly collaborative development environment with experience in large, complex software or web applications

• 5+ years of experience and familiarity with Web Content Authoring Guidelines (WCAG)

Contact: aarya@judge.com

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