Accessibility Engineer SrApply Now
Location: Lowell, Massachusetts 01851
Employment Type: Contract
Job Description
Contract Length: 1 year with possible extension
Job Summary: This person will collaborate directly with product, design, and engineering to create fully accessible products.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Job Summary: This person will collaborate directly with product, design, and engineering to create fully accessible products.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain relationships, credibility, and trust with business, product, and technical partners
- Evaluate, define, and when required, prototype appropriate approaches for any proposed accessibility solution
- Assisting internal delivery teams with ongoing development processes and implementation of accessibility throughout the software development lifecycle
- Run automated scans and manual assessments on web pages to identify accessibility issues, suggested fixes, and priorities
- Help design and development teams understand accessibility requirements, available tools, solutions, and prioritization
Requirements:
- Deep knowledge of WCAG 2.2, ARIA, and ACRs/VPATs
- Expert with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver and assistive technology like ZoomText or Dragon. Expert using various automated testing tools like Axe, WAVE, Lighthouse, etc.
- Experience working collaboratively with product teams to design, developing applications that are accessible and tested end-to-end
- A relevant combination of education and experience in front-end development
- Expert level understanding of HTML, CSS, working knowledge of JavaScript and reasonable familiarity with frontend frameworks like, Angular or React
- Experience conducting accessibility evaluations and assisting teams with remediation
Contact
Christian Griffith
Principal Recruiter
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