Digital Accessibility Architect

Job Summary

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is seeking a User Experience and Digital Accessibility Specialist to help create more accessible, usable, and inclusive digital experiences for the UW–Madison community. This role supports user experience and accessibility evaluations, consults with campus partners, contributes to usability and accessibility research, and helps teams improve websites, applications, documents, and digital services.

This position is eligible for 100% remote, partial remote, or fully on‑site work. Remote work requires an approved flexible work arrangement, and successful candidates must provide their own high‑speed internet and phone to use a university‑provided computer. The role will initially last one year, with the possibility of extension up to two years or transition to an ongoing appointment based on program need and funding availability.

• Assists in advising various stakeholders on user‑centered and accessible practices
• Performs technical digital accessibility reviews on digital resources and tools
• Analyzes and synthesizes research data and metrics to inform policy, service, content, and interaction design
• Assists in the design and execution of training, facilitation, and outreach materials, and researches best practices to promote the use of user‑centered, accessible practices at the institution
• Conducts research with users to understand context and needs, utilizing methods such as ethnographic/field research, interviews, usability testing, and surveys

• Experience applying user experience, usability, accessibility, web design, content design, or user‑centered design practices to digital products, services, websites, or applications
• Experience evaluating digital interfaces, websites, applications, or content and documenting findings or recommendations
• Experience communicating design, usability, accessibility, or technical recommendations to partners with varying levels of technical knowledge
• Experience working collaboratively with designers, developers, content creators, product owners, project teams, or other stakeholders
• Familiarity with digital accessibility concepts, inclusive design principles, usability principles, or relevant accessibility standards such as WCAG

• Experience conducting accessibility evaluations using manual testing methods, assistive technologies, automated tools, or a combination of approaches
• Experience conducting usability testing, user interviews, heuristic reviews, journey mapping, or other user research methods
• Experience creating accessible digital content, websites, applications, design documentation, reports, or training materials
• Experience working in higher education, public sector, nonprofit, or other complex service environments
• Experience using tools such as Figma, usability testing platforms, accessibility testing tools, content management systems, issue tracking tools, or web analytics tools
• Familiarity with assistive technologies such as screen readers, keyboard‑only navigation, magnification, speech recognition, or other access technologies

Starting salary will be based on experience and qualifications. Well qualified applicants can expect to earn between $83,000 and $95,000, with final salary determined by experience and qualifications.

Associate's Degree Preferred Minimum

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW‑Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin‑Madison is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence by acknowledging skills and expertise from all backgrounds and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

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Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require your references to answer questions regarding misconduct, including sexual violence and sexual harassment. The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released.