# Technical Accessibility Specialist

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,800.00 - $110,700.00
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Accessibility Specialist to join our team. As a Technical Accessibility Specialist, you will interface with UX, designers, product managers, business leaders, internal clients, developers, and students to deliver accessible experiences to our public, employee, and student-facing products.

The salary range for this position is $73,800.00 - $110,700.00 per year.

**Responsibilities**

- Run audits and accessibility tests on the university's platforms and products for conformance with the current version of WCAG.

- Create a remediation plan for university platforms and products.

- Provide expert accessibility guidance to designers, product managers, developers, and business partners to influence product development.

- Maintain knowledge of accessibility industry trends, innovations, and solutions, as well as accessibility-related standards, laws, and management strategies.

- Develop guidelines for architects, designers, and developers to aid in compliance with the current version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

- Train/coach colleagues one-on-one and in small group environments on ADA awareness, implementing solutions and fostering innovation through accessibility.

- Consult with colleagues to solve challenging accessibility barriers.

- Develop and document team processes and procedures regarding accessibility.

- Assist with the research, development, and maintenance of the accessibility evaluation methodology.

- Assist with the training and mentoring of new team members.

- Network with accessibility industry professionals.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's Degree in a related field

- 3 years of experience in the accessibility field

- Broad knowledge of WCAG, Section 508, and ADA

- Ability to read and interpret HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and explain accessibility best practices

- Ability to confidently navigate multiple environments in one screen reader and understand how a screen reader interacts with user agent elements.

- Understands how various types of disabilities experience digital environments and how to design accessible digital spaces.

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual

- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual

- 11 paid holidays

- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- WCAG
- Section 508
- ADA
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- screen readers
- JAWS
- Dragon
- NVDA

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