An Accessibility Specialist ensuring digital products meet WCAG standards and enhancing user experience.

Job Summary

As an Associate within the Employee Experience team, you will collaborate with both designers and technologists to create accessible employee facing products. Your knowledge about HTML code, testing with assistive tech and good inclusive design principles will serve you well in this role.  Your quest to embrace leading-edge inclusive technologies and methodologies inspires the product teams you serve to follow suit. Best of all, you’ll be able to harness our network of Accessibility Engineers and subject matter experts from around the world to extend your knowledge and further your career.

Job responsibilities

Identifying, documenting and suggesting potential solutions for accessibility barriers based on WCAG 2.1 standards as well as compliance with other accessibility related laws Applying accessibility knowledge to a wide range of the firm’s digital properties, including native mobile applications, and digital documents Collaborating with Software Engineers and UX designers in one on one or small group environments Assist Senior Accessibility Engineers with training Software Engineers and UX designers Performing impact analysis and risk evaluation from user’s point of view.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

Practical experience testing for WCAG conformance using screen readers, magnifiers and other assistive tech tools Ability to analyze code for accessibility issues in HTML5/CSS3 Word, PowerPoint, and other document standards

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

PDF/UA and other document standards  Mobile accessibility on Android and IOS  Automation using cypress, Selenium and/or playwright