Lead Accessibility Specialist

Lead Accessibility Specialist

Are you a curious, smart, self-driven accessibility professional who loves working in collaboration to deliver moments of delight for customers and colleagues? Are you excited by the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into simple elegant solutions that exceed customer's needs and expectations? Are you excited by the challenge of working across internal teams and business stakeholders to deliver on high-impact internal projects with a focus on accessibility and the employee experience?

Come and join the Thomson Reuters Accessibility team as we grow and transform Thomson Reuters into a user focused, customer-obsessed organization. We aren't just changing the way customers engage with us, we are transforming and re-imagining our business. Our customers range from small entrepreneurs to large corporations and government clients across the globe. They are under a lot of pressure to ensure the products and services they purchase meet their business needs and are confident in knowing how to use them. Additionally, we support the employee experience, working to ensure everyone can come to work each day, be at their best and thrive.

Role Summary

As a Lead Accessibility Specialist, you will be a trusted, respected, partner that works closely with UX Design Professionals, Product Managers, and Engineering supporting our products. You will provide accessibility related consulting and guidance to ensure all customers or employees can access and use our products and assets. This is a high visibility and high impact role that will interact with all levels of leadership. You will leverage your expertise and use that skillset to influence in roadmap priorities, creation of rich and interactive designs, and spearhead requirements and outcomes desired. You will also be a mentor to other Accessibility Specialists and assist in educating and promoting accessibility in culture and practice within the organization. To be effective in this role, you must have demonstrated expert level understanding of accessibility, assistive technology, and need a unique skillset of problem solving, innovating, strong communication, ability to influence and working as part of a team.

We promote an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design, and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged.

What Makes this a Unique Opportunity

Thomson Reuters participates in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), which creates the standards for the web, including accessibility standards. The Accessibility team participates in the WCAG working group (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), which is part of the W3C. You will have the unique opportunity to participate as part of Thomson Reuters? membership.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 10 years of experience working as an accessibility professional.
• Expert level understanding of WCAG 2.1 (AA) guidelines.
• Expert level understanding of assistive technologies and accessibility-related software including JAWS�, NVDA, and Dragon� NaturallySpeaking.
• Demonstrated experience providing implementation direction and requirements to design, front-end development, engineering, and internal business teams such as marketing or customer support.
• Demonstrated experience improving and remediating for accessibility by applying or leveraging expertise in ARIA, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other Accessibility Specialists.
• Ability to collaborate with Design System team to create and document composable UI elements in a number of environments (Figma, HTML/CSS) leveraging system foundations and patterns.
• Knowledge of document accessibility and remediation, including PDF.
• General awareness of Section 508, ADA, AODA, and EN 301 549.
• Experience and understanding of Agile development practices.
• Ability to work collaboratively and productively both with diverse teams and independently.
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and presentation skills.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $40-42\hr USD.

Our opt-in benefits can include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions (the operator of this Talent Community) is a global leader of contingent talent services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

Salary : $40 - $42