Digital Accessibility Specialist

**Title: Digital Accessibility Specialist**

**Locations: Canberra**

**Type: Contract**

**Essential Skills**:

- At least five (5) years of experience working in a fast-paced and multi-disciplinary team delivering high-quality and wide-ranging accessibility-related outputs.
- A detailed understanding of WCAG guidelines. Including how it is commonly interpreted and applied, and its shortcomings and limitations
- A solid knowledge of interaction and content design principles, best practices, and industry trends
- Knowledge of ARIA and related WAI documentation, and of how ARIA can be used in complex user interface design and development
- A strong attention to detail and a focus on delivering high-quality outputs consistently and sometimes under pressure
- A well-developed ability to present complex ideas visually, orally, and in writing to diverse audiences concisely and persuasively

**Desirable Skills**
- Basic skills with and knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or common front-end frameworks or libraries
- An understanding of how people with disability use digital products and systems and the functional impact of impairments, injury, and health conditions on accessibility
- A passion for inclusive design with a collaborative, open and nurturing approach to communicating accessibility requirements.