Assessment Accessibility Specialist

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

In this role, you will work with the Assessment Editorial team to improve our accessibility story for students who are blind or have low vision and for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. This role combines editorial accessibility responsibilities with hands-on production tasks such as creating text-to-speech audio for students with reading disabilities, entering assessment content and media into authoring platforms, and performing quality checks to ensure items function and grade correctly. You will be responsible for training and overseeing the weekly vendor and independent contractor work to ensure all quality assurance steps are adhered to. You’ll work with a dynamic, hard-working team of directors and project managers focused on improving the accessibility of our high-quality educational assessments. You’ll become an expert on our products, the processes used to create them and liaison with the other departments who work with the Assessment Editorial group to publish CA’s assessments.

* As the Assessment Accessibility Specialist, you will have an impact of improving alignment to the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), reducing WCAG exceptions on state RFPs, decreasing inefficiencies, and ensuring less rework across the organization.
* You’ll work with both the Assessment Editorial and Assessment Design teams and their partners to ensure our assessment products are fully accessible to students who are blind or have low vision and to students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
* You will use your experience to increase efficiency without sacrificing quality.
* You will ensure that quality control standards are met.

**What You’ll Do**Train, guide vendors and freelancers, and act as the accessibility SME during the completion of projects including but not limited to supervising and spot checking:

Create and review alt text and long descriptions for K–8 assessment content, ensuring all descriptions are instructionally accurate, grade-appropriate, and focused on essential visual information without revealing answers. This includes interpreting diagrams, charts, graphs, maps, and other instructional visuals and collaborating with Assessment Editors and Designers to maintain the intent and integrity of the original item.

* Create and review ARIA labels that convey the instructional meaning of interactive elements in ways that are clear, age-appropriate, and supportive of K-8 learners using screen readers.
* Create and review VTT files for closed captioning and audio descriptions for videos.
* Create and review text-to-speech or human-voiced audio for Math and ELA items for special accommodations, ensuring the audio is instructionally accurate and matches the intent of the original item.
* Support production workflows as needed, including entering or updating content in authoring platforms, preparing audio, and performing basic quality checks to ensure items display, function, and score correctly.
* Edit print products for reading order, page titles, and alt text for images.

Ensure all existing content meets current WCAG guidelines for students who are blind or have low vision and students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Assist the Operations Project Manager with handoffs between the Product, Assessment, and Development teams. Become the expert and go-to person for training on accessibility and accommodations for K-8 assessment content.

* Build and maintain production and accessibility documentation and guidelines that outline best practices for creating instructionally accurate, grade-appropriate alt text, audio descriptions, and ARIA labels.
* Build and maintain training tools (videos, slide decks, written guidelines) that explain accessibility expectations and production workflows for vendors and internal staff.
* Help to plan and execute trainings for internal and external teams on accessibility features.
* Review vendor output for editorial accuracy and provide constructive feedback that reflects instructional goals and grade-level expectations.

Conduct accessibility reviews of print and digital assessment content by working closely with Editorial leads and Operations Project Managers.

**What You’ll Bring**
* Willingness to assist other departments to develop project plans and metrics.
* Must be able to take the initiative and work in a self-directed way.
* Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain editorial accessibility decisions and to clearly teach production processes.

**Key Skills & Expertise**
* Strong editorial background with experience creating student-facing content or assessment materials.
* Comfort learning technical workflows such as entering content in authoring platforms, making basic JSON updates, creating text-to-speech audio files, VTT files, PDF editing, database systems.
* Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Excel).
* Strong attention to detail.

**Experience & Education**
* Experience contributing to medium to large scale accessibility and accommodations projects for educational content.
* Experience building/managing accessibility and accommodation features such as alt text, aria labels, correct color contrast, page navigation, print pdf reading order, NIMAS files, closed captioning, audio descriptions, and text to speech.
* Experience with management of vendor throughout the life cycle of a project from planning and training to handoff.
* Experience with authoring tools i.e., Learnosity.

**Nice to Have**
* Familiarity with how accessibility accommodations function in real classrooms and testing environments.
* Experience building products for students who are blind or have low vision or students with reading or processing challenges

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