Digital Accessibility Advocate & Training Leader

University of California-Berkeley; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

University of California, Berkeley’s Library IT seeks a Digital Accessibility Outreach and Education Specialist to ensure digital resources are accessible to people with disabilities and meet ADA WCAG standards.

You will collaborate with library units and campus partners to identify barriers, provide training, and develop guidance for accessible content across videos, PDFs, web pages, and LMS.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of IT accessibility and technical workflow analysis functions.
• Understanding of assistive technologies and their application to individuals with disabilities in higher education.
• Knowledge relating to designing and authoring accessible digital content.
• Knowledge of methodologies associated with analysis of technical processes and information flow, and technical workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information to technical and non‑technical personnel at various levels in the organization.
• Experience with WCAG analysis for digital content authoring.
• Demonstrates problem solving and resourcefulness skills.
• Self‑motivated and works independently and as part of a team.
• Able to manage time and meet deadlines.
• Broad knowledge relating to accessibility matters and standards.
• Demonstrated ability to work with others from diverse experiences and backgrounds.
• Experience developing and delivering synchronous and asynchronous training and designing and producing training materials.

Responsibilities

• Identify accessibility issues and remediation plans for digital content.
• Collaborate with authors and managers for integration and testing of accessibility fixes.
• Assess accessibility of assets including videos, PDFs, and documents.
• Gather and summarize accessibility needs and recommend revisions.

Skills

IT accessibility

Assistive technologies

Accessible content design

Technical workflows analysis

Cross-functional communication

WCAG analysis

Problem solving

Time management

Team collaboration

Training development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

University of California, Berkeley’s Library IT seeks a Digital Accessibility Outreach and Education Specialist to ensure digital resources are accessible to people with disabilities and meet ADA WCAG standards.

You will collaborate with library units and campus partners to identify barriers, provide training, and develop guidance for accessible content across videos, PDFs, web pages, and LMS.