Accessibility Engineer

 Accessibility Engineer 

College Board – Risk Management  

Remote USA or Reston VA Hybrid option available.

** Please ensure you complete the application questionnaire

About the Team  

The Accessibility Compliance office (ACO) is a dedicated team of accessibility and accommodations experts responsible for ensuring the accessibility of all the College Board’s digital product offerings in compliance with leading accessibility standards. The ACO establishes internal best practices and audits projects to ensure compliance through collaboration with product owners, design, and development. It provides recurring training on multiple Accessibility topics to ensure proper engagement for project teams and interfaces with external vendors to confirm accessibility. This is all to ensure that all the College Board’s digital products and offerings are accessible to individuals with disabilities.  

About the Opportunity   

In this role, you are a champion for our users in ensuring compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 to ensure an accessible experience for all. You are the primary auditor of web applications and documents (including PDF) to identify and guide remediation while interfacing with College Board development resources. You will also be increasingly involved in the UAT process for key applications during the College Board digitization efforts.    

In this role, you will:  

Auditing (50%) 

• Test and validate College Board experience (Web & Mobile) to ensure adherence to current leading guidelines  

• Produce complete and reliable documentation and support to guide development teams on remediation.   

• Role is also responsible for documentation accessibility including PDF, Word, Powerpoint, and Excel.  

• Communicate test results to clients while ensuring a focus on technical remediation delivered in a fashion that is understandable by all.  

Customer Management (25%) 

• Develop and foster relationships related to work performed and ensure a commitment to Accessibility within related teams.  

• Effectively use leading assistive technologies to evaluate and resolve complaint management issues.  

• Support Irregularity report from a technical perspective and fashion meaningful response communication.  

User Acceptance Testing - UAT (15%) 

• Support team efforts to provide real-time user acceptance testing in support of critical product releases to facilitate College Board digitization efforts.  

Training (10%) 

• Identify and develop training opportunities in support of development teams to increase accessibility maturity.  

 About You  

• BS Degree in Computer Science, Psychology, or related field/equivalent experience required  

• 3-5 years of prior work experience in the field of Accessibility 

• Working knowledge of leading Assistive Technologies such as JAWS, NVDA, ZoomText, Dragon, etc.  

• Strong understanding of HTML/CSS and how to build web pages 

• Working knowledge of the fundamentals of JavaScript 

• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good customer working relationship 

• Demonstrated knowledge of Accessibility Standards and Laws, domestic and international – with the ability to apply them to design patterns  

• Demonstrated proficiency at written and oral communication to support relationship building  

• Ability to manage multiple projects at once effectively and efficiently 

• Working knowledge of VPAT development and maintenance 

• Ability to autonomously conduct research into emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products as required to fulfill the responsibilities of the position 

• Strong interpersonal skills  

• Strong consultative skills  

• Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail   

• Demonstrated proficiency at problem solving and adaptive reasoning 

• Lifelong Learner – what is learned today will be obsolete tomorrow; Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning  

• Are eligible to work in the United States for any employer 

About Our Process  

• Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled  

• While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise and/or panel interview, and reference checks.  This is an approximately 8-week process 

About Our Benefits and Compensation 

We offer our employees an outstanding benefits package that includes four weeks of paid time off, an organization-wide week-long winter break, a generous retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, paid parental leave for everyone, fertility benefits, remote work from anywhere in the country, medical/dental/vision/pet insurance, generous rewards compensation plan, and ongoing professional development and training. Salary is commensurate with experience and work location.  

The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $72,000 - $115,000. The College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.  

Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. The College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criterion.  

Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:    

• A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more 

• Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility 

• A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive 

You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process. 

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