LSAC is a nonprofit organization devoted to furthering quality, access, and fairness in law school admission by providing the core products and services that candidates and law schools depend on in the United States and around the world. LSAC promotes quality, access, and equity in law and education worldwide by supporting individuals’ enrollment journeys and providing pre-eminent assessment, data, and technology services.
We are seeking an Accessibility User Experience Engineer to join our Accessibility team. You will support autonomous agile teams to consciously design and build our web products and services to support people with disabilities through meeting or exceeding WCAG guidelines. This position is for an experienced front-end engineer with deep understanding of accessibility and engineering best practices and a strong agile mindset. You will directly engage with teams to collaborate with engineering, product, and design team members. We rely heavily on web-based services and you will have the opportunity to work with new and interesting technology.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Collaborate with others in the Accessibility team to teach accessibility best practice through documentation, training, and consulting
- Guide agile development teams that use modern technologies to build user experiences that are accessible
- Develop and recommend solutions that remove barriers
- Ensure consistency in LSAC’s accessibility approach across platforms and services. Test web products to ensure conformance to WCAG 2.0 Level AA
- Implement tools that help our software engineers build accessible UIs for the web
- Participate in design and code reviews
- Identify and communicate front-end best practices
- Occasionally you may be called upon to help build accessible solutions into LSAC products and services.
Qualifications
Competencies
- Experience developing/designing and testing websites to ensure conformance to accessibility standards such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA
- Experience in WAI-ARIA implementation
- Experience with assistive technologies, including NVDA, VoiceOver and JAWS
- Experience using Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- Passion for building and helping others build accessible UIs
- Demonstrated knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals
- Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
- Knowledge of modern development practices and the development lifecycle including Scrum, Kanban, Lean or other agile methodologies
- Values the success of the team over personal objectives.
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal as well as experience with MS Teams
- Experience with GIT and code management methods
- Fluency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related web technology
- Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React)
Preferred Education and Experience
- A. or B.S. degree. – preferred
- IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) certification
