Mathematician, Sr. jobs in Lima, OH

Sr Accessibility specialist

Responsibilities:
Guiding product teams in digital accessibility.
Coach in: design, development, and testing, and will verify compliance to WCAG and other accessibility standards.
Evangelize accessibility best practices in a way that helps other teams integrate accessibility into their ways of working.
Recommend accessible best practices for digital content including web pages, mobile applications, emails, presentations, multimedia, PDFs, and other commonly used digital file types for WCAG compliance.
Author VPAT/Accessibility Conformance Reports against the W3C WCAG 2.1 AA standards.
Author detailed specifications for remediating websites and mobile applications to mee the W3C WCAG 2.1 AA standards.
Work with core team developers and UX to test, steer, and validate designs and code to accessibility standards.
Author product information pages around accessibility compliance and features.
Develop creative ways to educate staff on how to create more accessible content including documents, emails, presentations, and communications.
Plan, conduct, and summarize usability testing with people who experience disability.
Forge long-term accessibility collaborations with various product teams.

Requirements:
Have rich experience in authoring VPATs/ACRs for enterprise web applications.
Expert knowledge of how to recommend HTML5, and ARIA techniques around websites.
Expert knowledge of mobile application accessibility testing and techniques.
Demonstrate experience using 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, and skills, and positive attitude in mentoring people to learn accessibility concepts.
Experience with conducting usability and accessibility end-user research.
Preferred Qualifications:
IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist Certification or US Client 508 Trusted Tester Certification.
Previous roles or degree(s) in fields of Digital Accessibility, User Experience, Digital Design, or Software Engineering.
Rich experience in designing or assessing various user interface design patterns including rich internet applications and single page web applications.

Top 3 Must have skills:
1. VPATs (Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates) experience in authoring over 20 VPATs.
2. WCAG 2.1 A/AA (expert knowledge of this standard, ability to judge if the standards are met, coaching teams on compliant fixes)
3. HTML5/ARIA (ability to assess a website markup and design for accessibility