UX Accessibility Developer
American Cybersystems, Inc.

This is for our direct client (brokerage) for long term contract Jersey City New Jersey 07302.

Description:

UX Accessibility Developer

Local candidates only

Hybrid 2-3 days a week

Responsibility:

• Act as a representative for the needs of customers with disabilities
• Understand and balance product and business priorities while advocating for the best, most accessible user experience
• Partner with engineering teams to improve implementation and evangelize accessibility best practices
• Participate in code review to ensure adherence to WCAG Guidelines, HTML Standards, and internal best practices.
• Participate in design review to ensure that visual standards are met and purely-visual cues are accounted for
• Attend SCRUM rituals with product teams to clarify requirements, determine scope, and prioritize accessibility-related items
• Collaborate with colleagues and engage in research and development to advance the accessibility of our products. This includes building proofs-of-concept for new components and patterns
• Collaborate closely with our design systems teams to ensure that design standards and components are build accessible from the ground up
• Understand the underlying needs and motivation of our clients to ensure we achieve business goals and provide value to our clients
• Form holistic solutions that integrate seamlessly into our wealth management product ecosystem
• Work closely with the larger Wealth Management UX team to share design best practices, align on patterns, and promote a design-centric culture at the firm

Relevant experience and mindset:
• Youve spent 3+ years as a front-end engineer in either web or native mobile development
• You are passionate about, and comfortable explaining and advocating for front-end semantics, accessible design patterns, and standards-compliant implementation
• You have some familiarity with WCAG Guidelines, WAI-ARIA, Apple Human Interface Guidelines, or other accessibility technologies.
• You have some familiarity using websites and apps using keyboard, switches, or screen readers (we use Voiceover, NVDA, JAWS, and Talkback).
• You are motivated and prepared to work in any framework in the service of improving user experience.
• Previous experience in any of the following will be useful: HTML/CSS/JS, Angular or React, and Swift or Kotlin.
• You're passionate about front-end engineering and accessibility and ready to share your knowledge with teammates and other stakeholders
• You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team that you can bounce ideas off of, get critical feedback from, and unite with to mature design thinking within a large organization
• You practice active listening and contribute in group situations (i.e. brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc.)
• You get excited by complex projects with high levels of ambiguity and are resilient in the face of obstacles
• You have a relentless desire to validate assumptions and uncover a problems root cause by testing, learning, and iterating
• You have a knack for balancing user goals, technology needs and business objectives and can clearly explain the rationale for your designs and how they achieve both