Accessibility Engineer

Role: Accessibility Engineer

Location: Austin, TX(Hybrid Mandatory)

Duration : On-Going Project

In your day-to-day work, you will be embedded in project team work. You will conduct design reviews, set engineering requirements, code accessibility solutions, and occasionally validate web experiences.

You will collaborate closely with project managers, designers, quality testers, and engineering teams. A significant portion of your time will involve working closely with project team members like designers and engineers to ensure accessibility requirements are met. This will include suggesting design changes and coding engineering solutions yourself.

Your expertise will be essential in upholding the company's core value of accessibility and inclusion, and to help mitigate legal risks. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to our client's ongoing efforts to make their e-commerce website accessible to everyone.

Requirements

- Identify accessibility issues in design mockups and propose improved interactions

- Identify accessibility issues in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and propose improved code solutions

- Make code changes to improve accessibility of web experiences using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

- Prototype accessible web experiences to demonstrate behavior and expectations to engineers and designers

- Collaborate with cross-functional project teams including design, business, engineering, QA, analytics, and SEO

- Propose and work on innovative engineering solutions that prevent, mitigate, or create novel solutions to accessibility problems

- Communicate problems and solutions to technical and non-technical people

- Prepare and deliver keynote presentations to teach engineers, designers, and copywriters about accessibility concepts

- Working knowledge of the ARIA 1.2 specification

- Working knowledge of the WCAG 2.2 specification

- Familiarity using accessibility features such as: VoiceOver, Hover Text, Switch Control, Voice Control, Invert Colors, Speak Screen, and Reduce Motion

- Familiar working with React

- Familiar working with git

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $50.00 - $55.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

8 hour shift

Work Location: In person