Accessibility Consultant

Overview

Position : Document Accessibility Consultant

Department : Publishing

Reports To : Product Owner, UX and Accessibility

Summary : The Document Accessibility Consultant will ensure electronic documents provided to our customers are compliant with accessibility standards : WCAG 2.1 AA and standards related to documents used offline. This individual will be responsible for both document creation and remediation, as well as acting as a subject matter expert to guide others : internally or outside vendor. Close collaboration with Product Owners, Engineering, Design, Editorial, and Production will be essential.

Base pay range : $36.00 / hr - $40.00 / hr

Core Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Electronic PrePress on updates to structural elements and tagging to both legacy and new InDesign files
• Create guidelines and best practices for implementing accessible documents : pre- & post- processing
• Review post export to PDF processing and additional tagging or documents needs to meet accessibility requirements : creating feedback or directly cleaning and fixing documents
• Perform additional tagging of post process exported PDFs as a batch or guide for 3rd party vendors to follow, or possibly update directly to deliver final documents
• Collaborate with, and guide, internal teams and 3rd party vendors in remediating documents (InDesign, PDF, etc.) on a per product basis, while also implementing and communicating best practices
• Participate in, and sometimes lead, working sessions with internal groups and 3rd party vendors : including status meetings

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