Digital Accessibility Specialist

Title: Digital Accessibility Specialist

Location: Remote

Job Description

Seeking a senior, hands-on Digital Accessibility Specialist to independently guide assigned digital properties or backlog segments from evaluation through actionable remediation guidance, verification, and team coaching. This individual contributor will quickly understand the customer’s digital footprint, recommend the appropriate sequence and depth of accessibility evaluations, and remain engaged with product, design, and engineering teams through remediation and retesting.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate digital products and experiences for accessibility using manual testing, keyboard testing, screen-reader testing, visual inspection, and automated evaluation tools.

• Assess complex interactions, including navigation, forms, validation, dynamic content, responsive experiences, reusable components, design-system patterns, and interaction states.

• Identify, reproduce, document, and clearly communicate accessibility defects so product, design, and engineering teams can act on findings.

• Provide specific, practical remediation guidance and training for designers, product managers, and developers.

• Review designs before implementation and evaluate functioning experiences after implementation.

• Perform accessibility quality assurance, retesting, fix verification, and regression review.

• Differentiate accessibility impact, severity, remediation complexity, and priority to support informed backlog decisions.

• Coach product managers on the format and process for creating actionable remediation roadmaps.

• Recommend evaluation sequencing, inclusive-design practices, and reusable improvements that strengthen accessibility across multiple digital experiences.

Qualifications:

• Senior-level experience independently evaluating digital products and guiding accessibility remediation through verification.

• Deep working knowledge of digital accessibility standards and established inclusive-design practices relevant to product design and software development.

• Demonstrated hands-on skill with manual accessibility testing, keyboard-only testing, screen readers, visual inspection, and automated accessibility evaluation tools.

• Experience evaluating complex, responsive digital interactions and reusable component or design-system patterns.

• Ability to translate findings into clear defect documentation, practical remediation guidance, and role-specific coaching.

• Strong accessibility quality assurance and retesting capabilities, including verification of fixes and identification of regressions.

• Ability to assess accessibility impact, severity, remediation complexity, and priority.

• Strong communication and coaching skills while remaining a hands-on accessibility practitioner.

• Healthcare, regulated-industry, enterprise digital product, or other accessibility-intensive experience is highly desirable.

Tools and Technologies:

• Screen readers and assistive technologies

• Keyboard-only testing methods

• Automated accessibility evaluation tools

• Browser developer tools and visual inspection techniques

• Design and prototyping platforms

• Defect tracking and product backlog tools

• Component libraries and design systems