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jobs roundup

Digital Accessibility Jobs, Dec 2022

Post author By Dennis
Post date December 23, 2022
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Here’s a list of some of the latest job openings in digital accessibility—some great opportunities!

Lead Product Designer – Accessibility at Atlassian, remote PST
Global Accessibility Lead at Red Hat
Senior Accessibility Program Manager at GitHub, remote US
Principal Program Manager, Accessibility at Zillow
Senior Manager Accessibility Specialist at Workday in Pleasanton, CA
Accessibility Design Lead at Bread Financial, remote US
Accessibility Testing Lead – Senior Manager at KPMG, UK
Tech Champion – Digital Accessibility at Arts Council England in UK
Accessibility Product Engineer at Olark, remote US
Online Learning Accessibility Coordinator at MIT, full-time for one year
Digital Accessibility Specialist, remote US
Added: Section 508 Accessibility Specialist at Oddball, remote US

articles roundup

Reading List Nov 2022

Recommended articles and presentations from over the last few months:

Learn Accessibility course on web.dev by Carie Fisher
5 Visual Treatments that Improve Accessibility by NNGroup
Buttons and the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon (how to, and how not to, label buttons) by Manuel Matuzovic
aria-label is a code smell by Eric Bailey
Cognitive Overlords A11yTalks with Alex Tait
7 tactics that benefit both accessibility and SEO by Deque Systems
The anatomy of visually-hidden by TPGi
5 takeaways from screen reader usability interviews by Jess Bud
Focus appearance explained and Bag some [WCAG] AAA wins where you can by TemperTemper
Foundations: HTML semantics by TetraLogical
Under-Engineered Patterns for #a11yTOconf by Adrian Roselli
BONUS: Blast from the past! What Is ARIA Even For? A most entertaining and informative video from by Heydon Pickering, Nov 2020.

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Web Axe publishing update

Post author By Dennis
Post date November 12, 2022
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So much has happened since the last Web Axe post over 18 months ago. The turmoil with Twitter lately (thanks to evil Elon) has inspired a resurgence of a more friendly and responsible Internet – self-publishing and decentralized content, so let’s hope this continues.

One thing we’ve learned over the last couple decades is that large corporations and their owners should not be the owners of the news, of social media, of us.

There will be more Web Axe blog posts coming, and more often. And the Twitter content will be cross-posted from Mastodon, a completely free, decentralized, and open-sourced social media platform. Besides this blog (and RSS feed), please feel free to follow Web Axe on Mastodon at @WebAxe@a11y.info.

PS: good tweets

https://twitter.com/AngryGranny1/status/1588655524949921793

Over 1 million people have joined Mastodon since October 27. Between that and those who returned to their old accounts, the number of active users has risen to over 1.6 million today, which, for context, is over 3 times what it was just about two weeks ago!

— Mastodon (@Mastodon@mastodon.social) (@joinmastodon) November 12, 2022

event roundup

Upcoming Accessibility Events (mid-2021)

Post author By Dennis
Post date March 18, 2021
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With CSUN and axe-con ending, what are other events or conferences are coming up? Here’s a list of upcoming digital accessibility events in mid-2021. Feel free to comment with more.

TechAccess Oklahoma 2021, April 20-22
Added: Web4All April 19-20
Making a COVID-19 Site Accessible: From Tweet to Action (live YouTube), A11yTalks series, April 22
A Future Date conference, date to be announced @afuturedateconf
Global Accessibility Awareness Day, May 20 #GAAD
Accessibility Camp Bay Area, May 22, @A11yCampBay
John Slatin Virtual AccessU 2021, May 13 and 18–20, Knowbility
Accessibility Toronto Camp, Saturday May 29, tweet announcement, @a11yTO #a11yTOCamp
Inclusive Design 24 returns September 16, @id24conf #id24
M-Enabling Summit, October 4-6, 2021, Washington DC @menablingsummit
Accessing Higher Ground – November 15-19, submit speaker proposal (due 5/12)

Also, check out my Twitter list of accessibility meetups around the world.

jobs

Digital Accessibility Jobs, Jan 2021

Post author By Dennis
Post date January 18, 2021
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More great opportunities in the field of digital accessibility.

Senior UX Designer, Accessibility at Ad Hoc (remonte/DC).
Accessibility Director at California Community Colleges (CCC) Technology Center.
Web Accessibility Programmer at California Community Colleges in San Mateo, CA.
Accessibility Consultant at Deque Systems in Herndon, VA, or remote location.
UX Accessibility Specialist II at Edward Jones in San Francisco, CA.
Accessibility Engineer at Vispero (Remote).
Accessibility Lead at Zendesk in San Francisco, CA.
Accessibility Program Lead at Amazon (remote).
Accessibility Engineer at MURAL (Remote).
Digital Accessibility Consulting Engineer at Stanford in Palo Alto, CA.
Sr. Accessibility Specialist at Thomson Reuters.
Senior Accessibility Lead at Spotify in New York, NY.
Mobile Engineer: Accessibility at Babylon Health in Austin, TX.

As always, watch out for more job listings on Twitter via @a11yJobs, @EasyChirp, and me @WebAxe.