Accessibility Lead - Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom - Concept Personnel

Concept Personnel

Verified Company

Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Accessibility Lead

Location:
Newcastle

Salary:
£40k-£60k**Our client has a mission to make the online world accessible for all with major global organisations joining on them on their journey. They need help to achieve their ambitious plans. This is why they're looking for an Accessibility Lead to help them support internal teams and clients with digital accessibility auditing and web compliance capabilities.
If you are digital accessibility expert with great communication skills, then you will love this role

Responsibilities:

Auditing our internal and external technologies for accessibility issues, and coaching colleagues to consider the accessibility impact of each new feature we add to our product portfolio.
Helping our clients to fix accessibility issues highlighted by our accessibility scanner.
Organising accessibility training for staff members.
Testing our accessibility solutions with different stakeholder audiences.
Handson accessibility testing of our digital products.
Audit all outputs for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.
Implementing an internal culture of 'accessible by design
Proactively identify new trends in accessibility and opportunities for product improvement.
Testing products for accessibility.
Being the goto expert internally on all accessibility matters.
Manage the internal training programmes for accessibility (including courses/qualifications)
Contributing to educational and marketing materials aimed at increased awareness. off accessibility problems and solutions.

Requirements:

IAAP certification
Experience managing accessibility audits and remediation issues.
Hands on experience with Assistive Technology (e.g. screen readers, magnifiers, alternative input, etc)
5+ years of experience in driving accessibility in digital, customer facing programs or functions.
A background in usability, usercentred design, or inclusive design

Benefits:

Great culture & working environment awesome views of Newcastle Quayside
30 days annual leave including Bank Holidays
10 days workcation
New kit of your choice
Pension & Healthcare
Genuine Meritocracy
Fun social scene

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, click "apply" and we'll get things rolling. If you'd like to find out more about this or any other job with us, get in touch.