Digital Accessibility Tester; Hybrid Onsite - Harford, CT

Digital Accessibility Tester (Hybrid Onsite)

Location:

Hartford, CT

Duration: 6 months

Pay Rate: $50/hr on C2C / 1099 all inclusive (OR) $45/hr on

Interview Type:
Virtual Interview

Note:

Candidate Must be local to Connecticut Hybrid Onsite - 1 day per week.

You will work across several verticals including health, business, education, transportation, employment, judicial, housing, agriculture and many more. This role demands a deep familiarity with the requirements and processes for complying with current and future accessibility standards as documented in WCAG, ADA, and Section 508. You will also support cross-functional teams who have responsibilities in the application of remediation efforts connected to your testing work.

These teams include website administrators, content developers, platform engineers, and digital asset managers. You will be responsible for clearly communicating testing results to stakeholders as needed and be able to intelligently answer questions about your testing processes and results. This role requires strong QA practices, proactive problem-solving, and an ability to meet consistent project deadlines. Your work will help open up access to critical state services and change lives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Conduct testing of digital products, services, and technologies, to ensure the State can meet the highest standards of accessibility
• Maintain and organize testing data to allow for focused application of remediation efforts
• Assist with code review and remediation, helping developers and engineers quickly apply best practice solutions for critical usability issues

This role will support the State’s enterprise initiative for accessibility optimization. To better understand the needs, we broke down additional responsibilities into seven main areas.

Audit current State systems and customer-facing assets to find accessibility issues. Assemble and deliver test data to show commonalities as well as unique areas of need

Develop test cases and improve testing protocols, to allow for the deepest discovery of issues

Clearly summarize accessibility findings and provide recommendations for remediation, including code-level and role-based recommendations and solutions

Evaluate new vendor products for compliance with accessibility standards, and help improve the State procurement process for technology and digital services

Collect and document testing data to allow for clear benchmarking, gap analysis, and risk assessment aligned to platform, service domain, asset type, and customer journey

Execute and iterate manual accessibility testing for all state digital assets, before and after remediation

Integrate testing policies and perform quality checks on audit processes to validate results and support best practices for testing, for both state and vendor work

Clearly communicate testing outcomes and provide expertise to help stakeholders understand results

Keep Accessibility leadership apprised of progress, challenges, and outcomes related to the enterprise testing efforts

Establish and maintain effective relationships across multiple teams to help support accessibility work at the State

Maintain test libraries, testing standards, tool configurations, data repositories, and reporting frameworks to help support the state’s ongoing governance of accessibility standards

Mentor internal team members and agency staff on accessibility standards and testing approaches to promote sustainability and skills transfer

Stay on top of the latest changes in WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 standards, and document and apply adjustments to testing practices to accommodate these changes

Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in the field of Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, Web Development, Library or Informational Science, or Human Computer Interaction

3+ years of hands-on…