Senior Accessibility Specialist

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the UK seeks a Senior Accessibility Specialist to join their Design Team. This role involves conducting accessibility audits, partnering with UX/UI designers, and providing actionable insights to improve digital products. Candidates should have a strong background in accessibility, excellent communication skills, and experience with assistive technologies. The position offers a hybrid working model and competitive benefits.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Proven track record of conducting accessibility audits and creating reports.
• Extensive experience in delivering accessible cross-platform digital solutions.
• Strong understanding of user-centred design principles.

Responsibilities

• Conduct accessibility audits on digital products and provide recommendations.
• Perform accessibility testing alongside development teams.
• Partner with UX/UI designers to incorporate accessibility in designs.

Skills

Hands-on accessibility testing

Excellent communication

Problem-solving skills

Understanding of WCAG

Experience with assistive technologies

Tools

Axe

CCS

Siteimprove browser extension

Job description

Job Title: Senior Accessibility Specialist

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park Or Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 7th of October 2025

Royal London has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Accessibility Specialist to join our Design Team.

You will be passionate about hands-on accessibility testing and auditing of digital products to ensure they meet Royal London Group's accessibility standards. This role will involve evaluating websites, applications, and digital tools using a variety of manual and automated methods. As a Senior Accessibility Tester, you will identify issues related to assistive technologies and provide clear, actionable reports to development teams within the business.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in accessibility, and a passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences. You will have excellent communication skills, with the ability to work with predominately technical teams.

About the role

• Play a key role in developing our accessibility presence and capability focusing on evaluating our digital products against our accessibility standards thereby providing critical data on high-risk areas.
• Conduct accessibility audits on digital products, providing detailed reports on findings and actionable recommendations for improvement.
• Perform accessibility testing alongside development teams using a variety of evaluation tools as well as automated and manual testing methods.
• Partner with UX/UI designers to ensure that accessibility is considered in the design phase, providing feedback on artifacts.
• Partner with developers to explain accessibility issues and offer guidance on how to resolve them while ensuring code is optimised for accessibility.
• Provide guidance to teams on how to effectively use assistive technologies during testing.
• Support the Digital Team in its endeavours to increase awareness around accessibility, playing an active part when organising and running awareness events (e.g. GAAD).
• Other related tasks as required by the Design Team.

About you

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively explain accessibility concepts, issues and solutions clearly.
• Proven track record of conducting accessibility audits, creating and analysing accessibility reports and providing actionable recommendations.
• Extensive experience in supporting the delivery of accessible cross-platform digital solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify common accessibility issues, advising individuals and teams on solutions and best practices.
• Strong understanding of user-centred design principles and how they apply to accessibility.
• Strong understanding of WCAG, ARIA, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other front-end technologies.
• Extensive experience using assistive technologies (e.g., NVDA, Talkback, VoiceOver, ZoomText).
• Experience with both desktop and mobile device accessibility testing
• Hands on experience with using accessibility testing tools (e.g., Axe, CCA, Siteimprove browser extension).

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.