The Digital Accessibility Specialist supports the Accessibility Center of Excellence (COE) by partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, and Quality teams to deliver inclusive, accessible digital experiences at scale.
In this role, you will conduct audits of design systems and content management platforms.
You will perform manual and automated accessibility testing across web and mobile experiences, ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA, and related standards.
You will identify accessibility barriers, author high-quality defects and documentation requirements, and contribute to training, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement of accessibility practices across Technology & Digital (KTD).
Key Responsibilities
Lead accessibility audits of design systems and content management platforms.
Create requirements for accessibility documentation to support users of these systems and platforms
Contribute accessibility guidance, job aids, checklists, and training materials to knowledge repositories.
Evaluate web and mobile experiences using assistive technologies and automated testing tools to identify accessibility issues.
Test products against WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
Create clear, actionable accessibility defects with reproduction steps, user impact, and standards mapping.
Partner with Product, UX, Engineering, and QA teams to integrate accessibility into Agile workflows.
Advocate for inclusive design and help teams understand real-world user experiences with assistive technology.
Demonstrate company values of respect, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
Note to Vendors
Top 3 skills: knowledge of accessibility standards, experience with assistive technology, experience with accessibility documentation
Soft Skills Needed: strong oral and written communication, collaboration and stakeholder management, coaching would be beneficial.
Project person will be supporting: auditing and documenting our design system for accessibility.
Work Location (in office, hybrid, remote): hybrid - great to be in the office at the BTD but if need be they can be remote
Is travel required: no
Required Working Hours: EST or CST
Interview process and when will it start: ASAP
Prescreening Details: manual 5 question
When do you want this person to start: ASAP