Remote Accessibility Advocate for Youth Education

With your generosity, we fund youth empowerment programs that provide marginalized kids with a safe place to call home, a family that loves them, a feeling of community, and opportunities to learn, build self-esteem, and have fun.

REMOTE VOLUNTEER DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY SPECIALIST — iLevelUP EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

Help iLevelUP make student education, college, career, scholarship, and life-readiness resources usable by people with disabilities.

iLevelUP is a Believe in Me education initiative serving students and first-generation learners. The Digital Accessibility Specialist will assess web and mobile experiences, recommend practical improvements, and help volunteers apply inclusive design and development practices.

• Review user flows, content, interfaces, forms, media, and documents for accessibility barriers.
• Evaluate alignment with WCAG and relevant accessibility practices.
• Test keyboard navigation, focus order, screen-reader behavior, color contrast, headings, labels, alt text, captions, and error handling.
• Document findings with severity, user impact, reproduction steps, and recommended remediation.
• Collaborate with product, design, content, engineering, QA, and technical-support volunteers.
• Create checklists, reusable guidance, and acceptance criteria for future work.
• Center the needs and dignity of students with disabilities.

Digital accessibility, inclusive design, UX, web development, QA, assistive technology, content accessibility, or disability advocacy. Familiarity with WCAG, ARIA, screen readers, automated tools, and manual testing is helpful.

Remote and flexible, approximately 2–3 hours per week, with project-based or ongoing participation.

Your expertise will help more students independently discover and use educational resources. Volunteers receive orientation, defined priorities, collaboration tools, and access to program and technical leaders.

Keywords remote accessibility volunteer; WCAG specialist; inclusive design; accessibility testing; education technology; youth education; iLevelUP; first-generation students; assistive technology.