Job Description
UX Accessibility Consultant
Location : Toronto, ON - Hybrid (Once a week and every 2nd Friday)
Contract Length : 6 Months with possibility of extension.
We at Raise are hiring an UX Accessibility Consultant for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.
We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities :
- You’re an Accessibility Champion : You’ll help create an inclusive environment by making our stakeholders, development partners, executives and designers understand the need to consider accessibility with every design decision.
- You’re a WCAG Champion : You are comfortable citing and explaining WCAG to justify and support recommendations.
- You re an Assistive Technology expert : You’ll use various assistive technologies such as screen readers, text scaler and dictation software to not only test the usability and accessibility of our applications, but also demonstrate the user experience.
- You can research and present findings : You’ll actively participate in user research and use the results to make accessibility recommendations.
You’ll present cases for change in a compelling manner to stakeholders.
- You demonstrate leadership : You’ll coach and mentor junior members of the team.
- You’re user centric : You have the desire to be first in class from an accessibility perspective so that all our employees can use the tools we provide to help our clients make their ambition a reality.
- You communicate with confidence : You use your powers of communication to speak about accessibility guidelines with authority.
Your solid interpersonal skills are a must for collaborating with diverse stakeholders, product owners and internal pod members.
You’ll support and lead activities which focus on articulating the value of inclusive design to our internal partners.
Must Have Requirement :
- Web Accessibilty experience 3 years
- WCAG 3 years
- Outlook, Excel, Word, Powerpoint experience 3years
- Familiarity with HTML
- Experience in digital space 3 years
- Strong communication skills
Nice to Have :
- UX tools such as Figma and Mural.
- Salesforce CRM experience is a bonus, this role will be heavily immersed in our Salesforce platform, so experience would be an asset, especially if that experience is accessibility related