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Description:
Reporting to the Director of Web Accessibility, you will support the implementation and continuous improvement of accessibility by collaborating and conducting routine reviews throughout the lifecycle to ensure adherence to our accessibility standards, guidelines, and regulations.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Visually identify accessibility issues in designs, layouts, and wireframes to ensure clean designs are delivered to development.
• Proactively detect possible accessibility issues in the design phase which could affect accessibility in development and offer innovative accessible alternative solutions.
• Execute inspection during development, to ensure the product is defect free prior to release.
• Provide accessibility analysis, consultation, and coaching to your team members.
• Partner to build testing strategies/plans.
• Ability to employ automated and manual methods to test for accessibility and originate accessibility reports to ensure issues are documented, communicated, and remediated on time.
• Proactively deliver test results to your team and participate in follow-up discussions to develop a roadmap in an order to remediate for accessibility.
• Ensure compliance with accessibility policies and regulations (WCAG 2.1 AA, ADA, and company-specific requirements) and communicate these in common language to your team at all levels.
• Maintain and grow subject matter expertise in the accessibility field.
Skills:
Accessibility, Aria, Design, User experience, WCAG
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
• Extensive understanding of WCAG 2.1 AA, WAI-ARIA, and ADA
• Experience with assistive technologies (JAWS, NVDA, keyboard, etc.)
• Experience with Adobe XD and Figma
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JAVA, and JavaScript
• CPACC, WAS, ADS, CPWA, Trusted Tester Certification a plus
• Great communicator with the ability to build relationships between team members
• Highly motivated, detail oriented, self-starter with problem-solving skills
Experience Level:
Expert Level
About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.