Senior Accessibility Specialist
New York, NY
Contracted to Full Time
Information Technology
Experienced
Role: Senior Accessibility Specialist (Technical)
Location: New York, NY 10001 (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
W2/1099
What’s Required:
Technical background in A11y (Accessibility), Adobe CMS (Adobe Experience Manager/AEM) or similar with some front-end development/designing experience.
What you will do:
You will influence and coach teams to include accessibility in the digital products and documents. This candidate will serve as an in-house testing and remediation specialist while working with the publishing and technical team to create accessible products.
Specific roles and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Education:
Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in IT/Computer science or similar.
Note: This is NOT a remote position.
Location: New York, NY 10001 (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
W2/1099
What’s Required:
Technical background in A11y (Accessibility), Adobe CMS (Adobe Experience Manager/AEM) or similar with some front-end development/designing experience.
What you will do:
You will influence and coach teams to include accessibility in the digital products and documents. This candidate will serve as an in-house testing and remediation specialist while working with the publishing and technical team to create accessible products.
Specific roles and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Under the guidance of Accessibility COE leadership, collaborating with the partners and product owners to execute the corporate accessibility strategy across the board to create accessible products and services.
- Perform accessibility audit and recommend solutions to fill the accessibility gaps based on WCAG standards, ARIA best practices, and PDF/Universal Accessibility as well as compliance with the ADA, Section 508, the 21st Century Communication and Video Accessibility Act.
- Experience in design standards and front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
- Exposure to Adobe CMS (AEM/ Adobe Experience Manager) or similar.
- Experience to work in-sync with the server-side development teams.
- Experience in automated accessibility tools such as WAVE, Axe, and Accessibility Insight and working on enterprise applications.
Education:
Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in IT/Computer science or similar.
Note: This is NOT a remote position.
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