Senior Accessible Documents Remediation Specialist (Contract)

Testpros; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

TestPros seeks an experienced Senior Document Accessibility Remediation Specialist with an active IAAP Accessible Document Specialist (ADS) certification to support a potential university-wide digital accessibility remediation program. You will remediate PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other documents to WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA standards, including complex STEM content and forms.

This contract-based role requires hands-on remediation, collaboration with QA and stakeholders, and documentation

Qualifications

• Hands-on remediation of PDF and digital documents to WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA standards.
• Experience remediating documents for higher education, government, or similarly complex organizations.
• Ability to document remediation decisions and maintain production quality.

Responsibilities

• Perform accessibility remediation of PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other digital documents.
• Remediate scanned and legacy documents using OCR, tagging, and structural correction.
• Create accessible PDFs with proper headings, tables, reading order, alt text, bookmarks, and metadata.
• Remediate complex academic documents including course materials, research publications, syllabi, and STEM content.
• Address equations, MathML, and technical diagrams in remediation.
• Remediate fillable forms and interactive fields.
• Ensure compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA-1 or higher, and Section 508.
• Conduct manual and automated accessibility checks and fix deficiencies.
• Collaborate with accessibility QA, stakeholders, and subject-matter experts.
• Maintain remediation records and production status reports.
• Support multiple concurrent assignments and varying project turnaround requirements.

Skills

PDF accessibility remediation

Remediation documentation

Manual accessibility validation

Written communication

Tools

Adobe Acrobat Pro

PAC

CommonLook

Job description

TestPros seeks an experienced Senior Document Accessibility Remediation Specialist with an active IAAP Accessible Document Specialist (ADS) certification to support a potential university-wide digital accessibility remediation program. You will remediate PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other documents to WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA standards, including complex STEM content and forms.

This contract-based role requires hands-on remediation, collaboration with QA and stakeholders, and documentation