QUALIFICATIONS:

• BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 10+ years of experience working as an accessibility professional.
• Expert level understanding of WCAG 2.1 (AA) guidelines.
• Expert level understanding of assistive technologies and accessibility-related software including JAWS�, NVDA, and Dragon� NaturallySpeaking.
• Demonstrated experience providing implementation direction and requirements to design, front-end development, engineering, and internal business teams such as marketing or customer support.
• Demonstrated experience improving and remediating for accessibility by applying or leveraging expertise in ARIA, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other Accessibility Specialists.
• Ability to collaborate with Design System team to create and document composable UI elements in a number of environments (Figma, HTML/CSS) leveraging system foundations and patterns.
• Knowledge of document accessibility and remediation, including PDF.
• General awareness of Section 508, ADA, AODA, and EN 301 549.
• Experience and understanding of Agile development practices.
• Ability to work collaboratively and productively both with diverse teams and independently.
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and presentation skills.
  Job Type: Contract
  Pay: $40.00 - $42.00 per hour

Experience:

• WCAG: 10 years (Required)
• JAWS: 5 years (Required)
• Front-end development: 6 years (Preferred)
• HTML: 4 years (Required)

Work Location: Remot

As a Lead Accessibility Specialist, you will be a trusted, respected, partner that works closely with UX Design Professionals, Product Managers, and Engineering supporting our products. You will provide accessibility related consulting and guidance to ensure all customers or employees can access and use our products and assets. This is a high visibility and high impact role that will interact with all levels of leadership. You will leverage your expertise and use that skillset to influence in roadmap priorities, creation of rich and interactive designs, and spearhead requirements and outcomes desired. You will also be a mentor to other Accessibility Specialists and assist in educating and promoting accessibility in culture and practice within the organization. To be effective in this role, you must have demonstrated expert level understanding of accessibility, assistive technology, and need a unique skillset of problem solving, innovating, strong communication, ability to influence and working as part of a team.
We promote an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design, and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged.