Digital Accessibility Tester

Key Responsibilities:

Accessibility Assessment

• Perform accessibility audits of digital systems and customer-facing assets.

• Identify accessibility gaps and deliver detailed test results with remediation recommendations.

• Develop and maintain accessibility test cases and testing protocols.

• Evaluate vendor products for accessibility compliance.

Manual Testing & QA

• Conduct manual accessibility testing before and after remediation.

• Perform quality checks on accessibility audits and testing processes.

• Validate accessibility improvements across web and digital platforms.

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain testing data, audit results, and compliance documentation.

• Support accessibility performance tracking, risk assessments, and reporting.

• Contribute to accessibility roadmap initiatives and enterprise compliance goals.

Collaboration & Communication

• Clearly communicate accessibility findings to stakeholders and development teams.

• Provide remediation guidance including code-level recommendations.

• Partner with internal teams to support accessibility initiatives.

Program Maintenance

• Maintain accessibility testing libraries, standards, and reporting frameworks.

• Mentor team members on accessibility standards and testing best practices.

• Stay updated on changes in WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 standards.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Web Development, HCI, or related field.

• 3+ years of hands-on digital accessibility testing experience.

• 2+ years working on digital product teams.

• Strong experience with manual accessibility testing using assistive technologies such as:

  • NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, TalkBack

  • Dragon, Fusion, ZoomText

  • Deque, WAVE

• Strong knowledge of HTML, ARIA, and semantic markup.

• Solid understanding of WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 accessibility standards.

• Experience auditing web applications and legacy systems for accessibility compliance.

• Familiarity with responsive web design principles and user-centered design (UCD).

• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.