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DESCRIPTION

You are curious, persistent, logical and clever – a true techie at heart. You enjoy living by the code of your craft and developing elegant solutions for complex problems. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a Senior Accessibility Specialist. Scroll down to learn more about the position’s responsibilities and requirements.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Leading, coordinating and supervising the work of testers during audit/assessment or product analysis for the subsequent creation of a specification
• Estimating of efforts required for Accessibility Testing, Audit, Analytics (per project)
• Consulting on Accessibility gaps, implementation specifics and Accessibility compliance program implementation
• Proposals\Results presentation to Client
• Working and training sessions for the teams (both internal and external)

REQUIREMENTS

• 4+ years experience in working with Accessibility (testing, specification, consulting, and requirements development)
• Great communication and presentation skills
• Consultative approach
• Proactive approach
• Development/Completion of:
  • Accessibility specification (analytics), with recommendation (+best practice) and examples
  • Test cases, checklists, test scenarios
  • Audit report
  • VPAT or customer’s reports
• Strong knowledge of HTML/CSS, general and Accessibility related points, WAI-ARIA
• WCAG (2.0,2.1+), best practice, techniques, and ability to give a recommendation
• Section 508 requirements and implementation
• CI/CD processes and how Accessibility should be integrated into
• JS is plus for a candidate:
  • Bug tracking systems (for example, JIRA)
  • Developer tools (for example, Chrome Dev Tools)
  • Automatic tools and code validators (Axe, Wave, validator.w3.org)
  • DQ Devtools
  • Assistive technologies, including screen readers (NVDA, JAWS, TalkBack, Voiceover)

WHAT WE OFFER

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
• Accident Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Pet Insurance
• REQ #: 206204205