Senior Accessibility Consultant

1 day ago


Watertown, Massachusetts, United States Perkins School for the Blind Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Accessibility Consultant to join our team at Perkins School for the Blind. As a Senior Accessibility Consultant, you will play a key role in helping our clients deliver accessible customer, employee, and brand experiences.

Key Responsibilities
  • Assist clients in developing strategies, roadmaps, policies, and procedures to advance and scale their enterprise-level accessibility programs.
  • Provide technical solutions and remediation guidance to clients to help remove accessibility barriers from digital experiences.
  • Review design systems, style guides, wireframes, and early digital prototypes to identify potential accessibility barriers while advising clients on inclusive design best practices.
  • Conduct manual accessibility audits of digital properties, inspecting web code or native apps and identifying accessibility issues using a variety of assistive technologies.
  • Conduct user testing, typically of designated use cases, with people with disabilities.
  • Write reports to deliver expert accessibility insights and testing results to clients.
  • Create and present training materials.
Requirements
  • Proven track record of directly advising clients about inclusive design and digital accessibility standards and best practices.
  • Expert knowledge of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, The Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 508, evolving accessibility standards, and VPAT.
  • Skilled with HTML, CSS, and WAI-ARIA (JavaScript a plus).
  • Adept at conducting manual accessibility testing of websites, mobile apps, and digital products using assistive technologies such as screen readers (e.g. JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver) and magnification software.
  • Experience with automated accessibility testing tools and how to interpret/prioritize results.
  • Proven ability to develop and offer technical solutions, training, and guidance to web developers, designers, and software engineers.
  • Experience with mobile app development and mobile accessibility testing.
  • Knowledge of standards that apply to accessible multimedia.
  • Ability to create accessible electronic documents (MS Office, GSuite, PDF).
  • Prior experience with project management platforms (such as Asana and Basecamp), collaboration platforms (Slack), and bug-tracking systems (Jira).
Education and/or Experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as computer science, digital design, or user experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in digital accessibility or a combination of 5 years of experience in digital accessibility, software development, digital design for user experience.
  • IAAP Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC), a plus
  • Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) Certification, a plus
What We Offer

We have benefits that put you first, including an employer contributing retirement plan, tuition reimbursement from day one, professional development for our employees, personal days, paid time off, and paid sick leave. Our campus is quaint, charming, and historical, a perfect mix of legacy and modern buildings. It is located in the heart of Watertown, adjacent to the Charles River and a 5-minute drive from food and entertainment at Arsenal Yards.

Visit our website and apply today: https://perkins.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PRKNS/details/Senior-Digital-Accessibility-Consultant_JR684



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