Senior Document Accessibility Specialist (ADS) — PDF/UA Expert

Testpros; Sterling (VA); Remote; USD 55,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

TestPros seeks a Senior Document Accessibility Remediation Specialist to support a potential university-wide accessibility program. Requires active IAAP ADS certification and hands-on remediation of complex documents to meet WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA standards.

The role focuses on remediation of PDFs and native Office files, with emphasis on scanned documents, forms, equations, and STEM content, across higher education and government contexts. This is a contract/project-based opportunity.

Qualifications

• Active IAAP ADS certification.
• Hands-on PDF and digital document remediation experience.
• Experience remediating documents for higher education, government, healthcare, or similarly complex organizations.
• Strong understanding of WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA.
• Experience remediating scanned documents, tables, forms, and native Office files.
• Proficiency with Adobe Acrobat Pro and remediation/validation tools such as PAC or CommonLook.

Responsibilities

• Remediate PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other digital documents.
• Remediate scanned and legacy documents using OCR, tagging, and structural corrections.
• Create accessible PDFs with appropriate headings, tables, reading order, alt text, bookmarks, and metadata.
• Remediate complex academic documents (course materials, publications, syllabi, forms).
• Address equations, MathML, STEM diagrams, charts, drawings.
• Remediate fillable forms, interactive fields, and electronic signatures.
• Ensure WCAG 2.1 AA, PDF/UA-1 or higher, and Section 508 compliance.
• Conduct manual and automated accessibility checks and fix deficiencies.
• Collaborate with QA, stakeholders, and SMEs to validate content.
• Maintain remediation documentation and status reports.
• Support multiple concurrent assignments with varying turnaround.

Skills

Document remediation

OCR remediation

WCAG 2.1 AA

PDF/UA compliance

Accessibility validation

Education

IAAP ADS certification

Tools

Adobe Acrobat Pro

PAC tool

CommonLook

Validation tools

Job description

TestPros seeks a Senior Document Accessibility Remediation Specialist to support a potential university-wide accessibility program. Requires active IAAP ADS certification and hands-on remediation of complex documents to meet WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA standards.

The role focuses on remediation of PDFs and native Office files, with emphasis on scanned documents, forms, equations, and STEM content, across higher education and government contexts. This is a contract/project-based opportunity.