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Digital Accessibility Expert (Italian/English bilingual freelancer), Teramo
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Job Reference:
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Posted:
28.04.2025
Expiry Date:
12.06.2025
Job Description:
Are you passionate about ensuring websites and applications are readily accessible to end-users utilizing assistive technologies? Are you knowledgeable about the guidelines defined by WCAG 2.0/2.1, Section 508, and other accessibility standards? If you enjoy collaborating with Developers and QA Engineers on accessibility standards and best practices, this might be the perfect role for you!
Responsibilities:
* Act as a go-to SME on accessibility, WCAG guidelines, and code-level remediation for junior team members; provide regular audit reviews for internal compliance.
* Prepare, run, and report on feedback from user reviews and WCAG audits.
* Serve as an educational resource to product teams and conduct office hours.
* Identify quality issues proactively and set up training programs for teams or individuals.
* Train new team members on accessibility testing on desktop and mobile devices.
* Manage multiple projects with different clients.
Qualifications:
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
* 5+ years of experience as an Accessibility specialist.
* Deep technical knowledge of accessibility, including code-level remediation and collaboration with developers.
* Experience with assistive technologies and WCAG checkpoints.
* Consulting agency experience and strong customer-facing skills.
* Self-motivated, proactive, and results-oriented.
* Ability to multitask and manage concurrent activities.
* Comfortable working collaboratively across organizational levels in a matrix environment.
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