Digital Experience Design Accessibility Analyst

Digital Experience Design Accessibility Analyst
Charlotte, NC | Atlanta, GA | Birmingham, AL | (hybrid- onsite 3 days per week)
6-12-month contract to hire

Primary Responsibilities

• Provides expert accessibility and usability feedback in the areas of design (UX/UI), development, and testing to teams
• Engages in quality audits and assist with remediation roadmaps
• Functions as a subject matter expert on accessibility, staying ahead of trends in disability advocacy, universal and inclusive design, and web standards.
• Collaborates with designers to review designs ensuring that accessibility is baked into the product before development starts
• Assists developers in addressing accessibility challenges by delivering specifications and providing functional prototypes of solutions
• Works with product teams to provide manual and automated reviews, diagnose issues and recommend solutions
• Facilitates and encourages collaboration and transparency across disciplines
• Assists in the development of training and education materials
• Evaluates third party tool and assist in implementation of new tools
• Mentors and trains Accessibility Analysts in standard methodologies, systems and processes
• Provides guidance and direction for accessibility program overall
• Collaborates with user researchers and represent users internally
• Prioritizes and defines approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so
• Provides peer-review of other analyst's annotation and recommendations

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field and six (6) years experience performing accessibility testing
• Or High School Diploma or GED and ten (10) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in performing accessibility testing
• Ability to collaborate productively both independently and with diverse teams
• Ability to hand-code HTML, CSS and JavaScript - inspect the code, analyze the violations, remediate in the browser's rendered code, and retest
• Ability to recommend technical solutions for several technology stacks, for example, mobile, React (single-page applications), dotnet, etc.
• Ability to mentor others in methods and techniques for addressing accessibility barriers on web applications and mobile devices and in a variety of forums
• Advanced soft skills and mastery of working with teams with varied levels of understanding of inclusive design or accessibility
• Consumer-centric; empathetic toward the customer with the ability to put oneself in their shoes
• Demonstrated confidence using a range of assistive technologies, including JAWS, NVDA, iOS VoiceOver, Android Talkback, etc.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Experienced working in an agile environment
• In depth understanding of ADA standards, including edge cases