Accessibility QA Engineer

at  Instructure

At Instructure we build Canvas and a portfolio of other educational products to help teachers and students learn together. We intend to support education for everyone, regardless of their individual abilities, wherever and however they learn best.
It is therefore critical to us that we develop our software to meet and exceed the accessibility needs of our users and all relevant accessibility standards. We’re hiring an Accessibility QA Engineer to join our a11y team to not only help us catch any accessibility issues that slip past our very a11y-conscious engineering teams, but also to help prevent accessibility problems before they occur by coaching our Design, Product Management, and Engineering teams.

• Coach and influence our R&D teams on accessible design, development, and testing best practices
• Provide designers with accessibility advice and best practices during design reviews
• Test new features before they release as part of our final accessibility audit; all our teams do their own testing first, you’re there as the final line of defense for our customers
• Investigate new accessibility technologies and standards, audit existing products for compliance, and help build remediation plans
• Coordinate with external auditors and vendors to complete third-party accessibility audits
• Present accessibility demonstrations to customers and other departments internally
• Conduct new-hire accessibility training for software engineers and other R&D personnel
• Update and maintain product VPATs