What are the responsibilities and job description for the Digital Accessibility Testing Intern position at Optimal Solutions Group?
Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) is a policy research and data analytics firm that conducts studies and provides technical assistance on health care, education, social welfare, economic development, and related subjects. Our mission is to provide decision makers with rigorous and timely insights that enable our clients to improve public well-being.
The Digital Accessibility Testing Intern will conduct assist software developers, data scientists, and UI/UX specialists in operationalizing digital accessibility metrics, visualizations, and reports based Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and PDF/UA standards for digital content and tools -- websites, documents, and software applications. Our goal is to identify a candidate who would work full-time during the summer and possibly part-time during the school year.
Responsibilities:
- Specify and operationalize additional accessibility metrics based on the Lazar, Gunderson et al. article
- Create crosswalk between and among accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG, PDF/UA) and accessibility testing tools (i.e., FAE Util, WAVE, ASPOSE).
- Specify visualizations and draft content based on new accessibility metrics.
- Draft plain language descriptions of accessibility errors and solutions.
Education & Experience:
- Actively working towards a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Information Sciences or Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Communications, or related field.
- Knowledge and experience with web technologies and/or web content management systems.
- Experience with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) accessibility standards and guidelines, accessibility audit and quality assurance tools and processes, preferred.
- Experience using common assistive technologies including screen readers magnifiers and voice recognition products.
- Experience supporting accessibility testing on multiple platforms and browsers including iOS and Android mobile devices.
- Knowledge of Job Access With Speech (JAWS) and NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA), preferred.
- Working toward becoming a certified Trusted Tester v5, would be a plus.
If you meet the requirements and qualifications listed above, submit cover letter and resume.
