Senior Accessibility Specialist

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal London is seeking a Senior Accessibility Specialist to lead audits across websites, native apps and other digital artefacts, ensuring accessibility from design to deployment.

You will work with agile teams in a hybrid 50% home/office setup, delivering actionable guidance and leveraging tools like Axe, NVDA, VoiceOver and ZoomText to improve experiences for users with impairments.

Qualifications

• Clear communicator able to explain accessibility principles, issues and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven expertise in conducting accessibility audits, generating detailed reports, and delivering actionable recommendations.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify common accessibility barriers and advise on best-practice solutions.
• Technical proficiency in WCAG 2.2, ARIA roles, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with assistive technologies including NVDA, TalkBack, VoiceOver, ZoomText and Dragon.
• Skilled in accessibility testing using tools such as Axe, CCA, and Siteimprove browser extension.

Responsibilities

• Lead manual and automated accessibility audits across websites, native apps, and other digital artefacts.
• Evaluate digital products against WCAG 2.2 AA.
• Collaborate with design team colleagues to embed accessibility into design artefacts.
• Partner with developers to resolve accessibility issues and optimise code.
• Use assistive technologies like NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack, ZoomText and Dragon.
• Deliver clear, actionable reports and guidance to technical teams.
• Champion accessibility awareness through events like GAAD and internal workshops.

Skills

WCAG 2.2

ARIA roles

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

NVDA

VoiceOver

TalkBack

ZoomText

Dragon

Axe

CCA

Siteimprove

Tools

NVDA

VoiceOver

TalkBack

ZoomText

Dragon

Axe

CCA

Siteimprove

Job description

Royal London is hiring a Senior Accessibility Specialist to join our growing Design Team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced accessibility specialist who passionate about removing barriers by proactively shaping inclusive digital experiences with the wider team.

In this hands-on role, you will be aligned to several agile teams and act as their accessibility specialist, ensuring their outputs are accessible. You will be influencing their approach to inclusive design and development and will take the lead on accessibility testing digital artefacts. This may cover a combination of websites and application, native mobile apps, PDFs and other digital artefacts. Collaborating closely with designers and developers, you’ll confirm that designs are accessible before implementation and provide expertise throughout the product lifecycle. Using both manual and automated evaluation methods, you’ll identify accessibility issues as early as possible in the lifecycle, and deliver clear, actionable guidance to development teams. Your input will directly shape products that support our customers and create meaningful impact for users with impairments.

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.

Job description

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

About the role

• Lead manual and automated accessibility audits across websites, native apps, and other digital artefacts.


• Evaluate digital products against WCAG 2.2 AA.


• Collaborate with design team colleagues to embed accessibility into design artefacts.


• Partner with developers to resolve accessibility issues and optimise code.


• Use assistive technologies like NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack, ZoomText and Dragon.


• Deliver clear, actionable reports and guidance to technical teams.


• Champion accessibility awareness through events like GAAD and internal workshops.

About you

• Clear communicator, you are able to explain accessibility principles, issues, and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven expertise in conducting accessibility audits, generating detailed reports, and delivering actionable recommendations.

• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify common accessibility barriers and advise on best-practice solutions.

• Technical proficiency in WCAG 2.2, ARIA roles, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

• Hands-on experience with assistive technologies including NVDA, TalkBack, VoiceOver, ZoomText and Dragon.

• Skilled in accessibility testing using tools such as Axe, CCA, and 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.

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.