Web Digital Accessibility Engineer
Posted Today by 1755838823
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Digital Accessibility Web Engineer role involves providing expertise in digital accessibility design, development, testing, and support for websites and web applications. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure compliance with accessibility laws and guidelines. The consultant will leverage extensive experience in accessibility methodologies to enhance web-based products. This is a task and deliverable-based project lasting 12 months or more.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide digital accessibility design, development, testing, and support for websites and web applications.
- Ensure compliance with federal and state accessibility laws and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- Collaborate with UX Designers, Business Analysts, Developers, Solution Architects, Testers, Project Managers, and Accessibility Program experts.
- Perform automated and manual testing for accessibility, including screen readers and color contrast validation.
- Inspect code to validate and ensure accessible design practices.
- Design for patterns, design systems, user flows, wireframes, and prototyping.
Key Skills:
- Ten years of digital accessibility experience in web accessibility standards, including Section 508 and WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
- Experience in automated and manual testing for accessibility.
- Web application experience with code inspection for accessible design practices.
- Experience in web, mobile, and web application design and front-end development.
- Strong design skills for patterns, design systems, user flows, wireframes, and prototyping.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We're currently looking to hire a Digital Accessibility Web Engineer for one of our clients in Sacramento, CA. I like to set up a brief call, based on your availability to discuss this opportunity.
Task / Deliverable based project
Role: Digital Accessibility Web Engineer
Duration: 12 months plus (Task / Deliverable based project)
Job Description:
We have a new opportunity from our client to provide digital accessibility design, development, test, and support website and web applications. Consultants will provide subject matter expertise in accessibility methodologies and best practices for accessible web, mobile, and web applications. The consultant must undertake duties and responsibilities as an accessibility web engineer ensuring CalPERS products are compliant with applicable federal and state accessibility laws and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Mandatory
Ten (10) years of digital accessibility experience in designing for web accessibility standards and requirements, including Section 508 and WCAG 2.2 Level AA success criteria.