Senior Accessibility Specialist - Audit Specialist
Posted 1 week ago by Square One Resources
£550 Per day
Inside
Remote
England, UK
Summary: The Senior Digital Accessibility Specialist - Audit Specialist role involves conducting technical accessibility audits and providing solutions to enhance digital content compliance with WCAG 2.2 standards. This fully remote position requires strong experience in accessibility auditing and the ability to work autonomously while collaborating with stakeholders. The contract is for 12 months, starting in October 2025, with a focus on authoring VPATs and ACRs. The ideal candidate will possess a high degree of initiative and a mentoring attitude towards accessibility concepts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strong experience authoring VPAT/Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) against W3C WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
- Troubleshoots user accessibility issues, guiding product teams to solutions and coaching on appropriate testing tools.
- Author detailed specifications for remediating websites, mobile applications, and PDFs to meet the W3C WCAG 2.2 A standards.
- Work with core team developers and UX to test, steer, and validate designs and code to accessibility standards.
- Author product accessibility statements.
Key Skills:
- Strong Accessibility Auditing experience is crucial.
- Specific experience conducting technical accessibility audits is extremely important.
- Being able to identify and solve technical accessibility defects is very important, too.
- Being able to negotiate effectively with stakeholders and work autonomously is a must.
- Being able to make high-level decisions is also required.
- Candidates will be asked to provide an audit report that they have written, and to provide evidence on how they conducted the report.
- They will also be asked to show the solutions that they provided.
- Strong experience in authoring high quality VPATs/ACRs for enterprise web applications.
- Expert knowledge of how to recommend WCAG 2.2 techniques around websites and digital content.
- Rich experience using accessibility testing tools (WAVE, aXe, Microsoft Insights, Color Contrast Analyzer) and with screen readers (JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver).
- High degree of initiative and autonomy coupled with an ability to function successfully as part of a virtual team.
- Generosity in sharing knowledge, skills, and positive attitude in mentoring people to learn accessibility concepts.
Salary (Rate): £550/day
City: undetermined
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Job Title: Senior Digital Accessibility Specialist - Audit Specialist
Location: Fully remote working in the UK
Salary/Rate: £500/day £550/day inside IR35
Start Date: October 2025
Job Type: 12 - month contract
Company Introduction:
We are currently representing a global publishing client, who are recruiting a Senior Digital Accessibility Specialist with very strong Accessibility Auditing experience for an exciting 12-month contract.
Required Skills/Experience:
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Strong Accessibility Auditing experience is crucial.
- Specific experience conducting technical accessibility audits is extremely important.
- Being able to identify and solve technical accessibility defects is very important, too.
- Being able to negotiate effectively with stakeholders and work autonomously is a must.
- Being able to make high-level decisions is also required.
- Candidates will be asked to provide an audit report that they have written, and to provide evidence on how they conducted the report.
- They will also be asked to show the solutions that they provided.
- Strong experience in authoring high quality VPATs/ACRs for enterprise web applications.
- Expert knowledge of how to recommend WCAG 2.2 techniques around websites and digital content.
- Rich experience using accessibility testing tools (WAVE, aXe, Microsoft Insights, Color Contrast Analyzer) and with screen readers (JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver).
- High degree of initiative and autonomy coupled with an ability to function successfully as part of a virtual team.
- Generosity in sharing knowledge, skills, and positive attitude in mentoring people to learn accessibility concepts.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives:
- Strong experience authoring VPAT/Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) against W3C WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
- Troubleshoots user accessibility issues, guiding product teams to solutions and coaching on appropriate testing tools.
- Author detailed specifications for remediating websites, mobile applications, and PDFs to meet the W3C WCAG 2.2 A standards.
- Work with core team developers and UX to test, steer, and validate designs and code to accessibility standards.
- Author product accessibility statements.
Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:
- IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist Certification or US DHS 508 Trusted Tester Certification.
- Previous roles or degree(s) in fields of Digital Accessibility, User Experience, Digital Design, or Software Engineering.
- Expert knowledge of and mobile application accessibility testing and techniques.
- Wide experience with user interface design patterns including rich Internet applications, single page web applications, and AI/chatbots.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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