Digital Accessibility Expert (Italian/English bilingual freelancer)

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Digital Accessibility Expert (Italian/English bilingual freelancer), Italia

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

22.03.2025

Expiry Date:

06.05.2025

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 one of the go-to SMEs on accessibility, WCAG guidelines, and code-level remediation solutions for junior accessibility team members; provide regular audit reviews to ensure internal compliance with best practices.
• Prepare, run, and report on feedback from user reviews and WCAG Audits.
• Be an educational resource to product teams, and run office hours.
• Identify quality issues proactively and set up training programs specific to teams or individuals to address them.
• Train new team members on accessibility compliance testing on desktop and mobile devices.
• Potentially run multiple projects with different customers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a professional Accessibility specialist capacity.
• Deep technical knowledge of accessibility; ability to provide code-level remediation and lead discussions with developers.
• Experience in and deep understanding of accessibility, including assistive technologies and WCAG checkpoints.
• Consulting agency experience and strong customer-facing skills.
• Self-starter, self-motivated, with a focus on getting things done.
• Effectively multitask and manage concurrent activities.
• Comfortable working in a matrix environment across the organization in a collaborative manner.