UX Accessibility Consultant

2 days ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada BeachHead Full time $90,000 - $120,000 per year

Do you have a passion for building, creating and designing? If you have a deep passion for user-centred design, technology and innovation. Do you envision how people experience products and bring that vision to life in your design? We have an exciting opportunity for you...

Working with one of the top financial clients, this role calls for a UX Accessibility Consultant who will ensure the client's employee-facing platforms and applications are universally accessible for employees of all abilities. This candidate will work closely with the different UX disciplines - Content Writers, Visual Designers and UX Researchers. The successful candidate will also closely collaborate with Business Analysts, Product Owners, Developers and QA Testers. You'll ensure our products and designs meet digital accessibility standards while providing the best banking experience for both employees and clients. This candidate will make recommendations for design and build, which align with the client's inclusive design standards, so any employee using assistive technologies can use our customer servicing tools. This candidate will provide high-level consultations and education for our partner teams to meet clients' high standards of client and employee satisfaction.

Responsibilities

  • You're an Accessibility Champion: You'll help create an inclusive environment by making our stakeholders, development partners, executives, and designers understand the need to consider accessibility with every design decision.
  • You're a WCAG Subject Matter Expert: You are comfortable citing and explaining WCAG to justify and support recommendations and best practices.
  • You're an Assistive Technology expert: You'll use various assistive technologies, such as screen readers, to not only test the usability and accessibility of our applications, but also demonstrate the user experience.
  • You can research and present findings: You'll actively participate in user research and use the results to make accessibility recommendations. You'll present cases for change compellingly to stakeholders.
  • You demonstrate leadership, experience and initiative: You'll coach and mentor junior members of the team.
  • You're user-centric: You have the desire to be first in class from an accessibility perspective so that all our employees can use the tools we provide to help our clients make their ambition a reality.
  • You communicate with confidence: You use your powers of communication to speak about accessibility guidelines with authority. Your solid interpersonal skills are a must for collaborating with diverse stakeholders, product owners and internal pod members. You'll support and lead activities which focus on articulating the value of inclusive design to our internal partners.

Desired Skill Set:

  • 3 years of experience in Web Accessibility experience
  • 3 years of experience with WCAG
  • 3 years of hands-on experience with Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
  • 3 years of experience in the digital space
  • Familiarity with HTML
  • Strong communication skills

Nice To Have:

  • UX tools such as Figma and Mural

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