Principal, Digital Accessibility Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Audit: Lead risk‑based accessibility audits across web, mobile, and critical third‑party integrations using manual testing, automated tools, assistive technologies, and code inspection, delivering prioritized findings, severity ratings, and remediation-ready acceptance criteria.
• Test: Validate accessibility with assistive technologies (JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack, ZoomText, voice control) and translate results into actionable guidance connecting conformance requirements to real usability outcomes.
• Guide: Provide technical review and remediation guidance by partnering with teams on root-cause analysis, recommended patterns, and verification steps, including review of pull requests and implementation approaches when needed.
• Define Standards: Define and evolve accessibility engineering standards and guardrails aligned to WCAG and relevant regulations, including design system and component requirements, accessible defaults, usage guidance, and definition-of-done quality criteria.
• Quality Gates: Advance test strategy and tooling by recommending and scaling automation in CI/CD and QA workflows, documenting coverage gaps, and defining where manual assistive-technology validation is required.
• Influence: Influence technical program execution through inputs to OKRs, risk triage, governance forums, and the coaches network, focusing on measurable adoption and improved product outcomes.
• Enable: Scale team capability through engineering-focused enablement, including advanced training, playbooks, office hours, and consultation to reduce repeat issues and improve remediation speed.

• 8+ years of professional experience with proven depth in digital accessibility, including auditing, assistive technology testing, and remediation guidance.
• Strong expertise in WCAG, ARIA, semantic HTML, accessible UI patterns, focus management, and keyboard behavior.
• Proven ability to translate accessibility findings into engineering-ready guidance, including acceptance criteria and verification steps.
• Strong working knowledge of modern web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) sufficient to review implementations and identify root causes.
• Working knowledge of mobile accessibility (native iOS, Android, or cross-platform) to guide teams on platform patterns and testing.
• Strong communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills, including writing clear audit results and facilitating remediation plans.