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About the role
Role: Digital Accessibility Partner
Start date: 13th July 2020
Location : London
Day Rate : share your day rate (outside IR35)
Security Clearance : SC
Experience: 6+ years
Tenure : 2 Years (based on 6 months performance review)
Essential Skill :
Demonstratable experience of supporting 5 agile delivery teams concurrently to integrate accessibility into their product / service.
Demonstratable experience of researching and understanding the needs of people with disabilities
Experience of working with delivery teams to building their capabilities in delivering accessible and inclusive products / services
Demonstrable experience of conducting user focused accessibility testing, user focused defect prioritisation and providing fix solutions using ARIA attributes
Demonstratable experience of identifying and implementing workarounds and adjustments for disabled users using a journey whilst defects are resolved by performing Defect retesting
Demonstrable experience of identifying accessibility issues beyond the scope of WCAG2.1 Guidelines , such as digital interface optimisation, offline contexts and policies to build truly inclusive services across multiple teams concurrently.
Experience of recruiting a diverse workforce and promoting a supportive and inclusive culture
Experience of deploying innovative approaches to test products and service accessibility
Able to provide the estimation efforts to changes relating to accessibility to team & Stakeholder
Expert usage of Assistive Technology (AT) and understanding the needs of people with disabilities such as : JAWS, NDVA, CC Analyser, Axe other open source tools.
Nice to have:
Demonstrable experience of supporting teams to meet the government's Service Standard
Demonstrable experience of placing accessibility consultants into agile delivery teams in government
Experience and understanding of the Public Sector Bodies (Website and Mobile) Accessibility Regulations (PSBAR )
Demonstrable experience of integrating and collaboration with an existing in-house accessibility team
Reference: 20-05298
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