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Senior / Lead Accessibility Engineer
Salesforce
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bangalore • 🇮🇳 India
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Senior
About the role
- Partner with product management, designers, developers and inclusive design to deliver accessible products and features by providing expertise and establishing best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Function as a subject matter expert on accessibility, staying ahead of trends in disability advocacy, universal and inclusive design, and web standards.
- Participate on large-scale projects or initiatives researching, documenting, prototyping and promoting best practices for usability and accessibility.
- Collaborate with designers to review designs ensuring that accessibility is baked into the product before development starts
- Assist developers in addressing accessibility challenges by delivering specifications and providing functional prototypes of solutions so they can meet web accessibility standards in their deliverables.
- Work with product teams to provide manual and automated reviews, diagnose issues and recommend solutions.
- Educate teams to leverage automated testing, interpret test failures, identify false positives and provide support for recommended fixes.
- Partner with the accessibility automation engineering team to increase validation rulesets, pilot and evaluate new testing frameworks and conduct training as needed.
- Partner with the Product Accessibility Enablement team to propose, create and deliver content for building accessible and inclusive products.
- Work with product teams to ensure products are regularly audited and results are resolved, including reviewing audit findings, helping to prioritize fixes and identifying enablement gaps.
- Facilitate and encourage collaboration and transparency across disciplines, geographies, and company departments.
- Provide ad hoc accessibility support and guidance to designers and engineers.
Requirements
- 3+ years working as a digital accessibility engineer.
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines and specifications.
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript and ARIA
- Design pattern and component libraries
- Assistive technology and accessibility-related software, including JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and ZoomText
- Automated accessibility tools (e.g. Axe) and experience interpreting results, drafting test rules, piloting new test automation frameworks, recommending fixes and training teams to use automation tools.
- Advanced soft skills and mastery of working with teams who may not have any understanding of inclusive design or accessibility.
- Ability to collaborate productively both independently and with diverse global teams.
- Proven organizational and multitasking skills.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
digital accessibility engineeringWeb Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelinesWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)HTMLCSSJavaScriptARIAdesign pattern librariescomponent librariesautomated accessibility tools
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationorganizational skillsmultitaskingteamworkeducational skillsproblem-solvingtransparencyfacilitationadvocacy
