Senior Accessibility Specialist

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Government Digital Service Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 337232**Salary**:

- £58,850 - £70,192- £66,875 - £70,192 (London) / £58,850 - £62,060 (National) Based on capability. The base salary of this grade is £58,800 for London and £53,400 for other locations. Offers made above this will be made up with a specialist pay allowance**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- GDS - GOV.UK**Type of role**:

- Digital
- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Bristol, London, ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
GDS exists to help government make brilliant public services that empower people in the UK. We work at the very centre of government to drive digital transformation, focused on users. We build and maintain common platforms, products and tools for others to use and create great public services that are accessible, inclusive and easy to use. We also work with departments to identify patterns, share learning and create change to make government more efficient.

Our teams are organised around delivering on our priorities. These are:

- making it easier for people to find what they are looking for on GOV.UK
- building common service platforms to make it simpler and cheaper to build quality digital services
- promoting agile, user-centred design practices both in the UK and across the world

**Job description**:
As a senior accessibility specialist at GDS you’ll work in multidisciplinary teams, alongside researchers and developers, to deliver world-class, user centred public services.

You’ll help identify and fix some of the toughest problems in public infrastructure and you will be focussing on design of services at scale. You’ll help the government transform the way it delivers services, so that they’re more efficient, simpler, faster and easier to use.

As a Senior Accessibility Specialist you’ll:

- work with Design Leads and Head of Design to define and establish accessibility best practice for GOV.UK
- identify and implement ways to champion and embed accessibility in regular practice for all GOV.UK colleagues
- share accessibility knowledge within GOV.UK and across GDS, provide accessibility advice and increase capability and raise awareness
- write guidance and documentation and advise on latest WCAG
- organise training and help build accessibility capacity across GOV.UK
- assess products for accessibility best practices and conformance with accessibility standards
- consult product teams, help them meet accessibility standards and best practices
- review implementations using a range of techniques including design reviews, automated testing and manual code inspection
- recommend solutions for code, design and content to be as accessible as possible
- benchmark and track the success of interventions to embed accessibility practices
- liaise with commercial teams to support the procurement of compliant, accessible and inclusive software and services, and can be incorporated into our code deployment pipeline
- arrange yearly accessibility audit for GOV.UK by procuring audit services and collaborating with them during the audit
- interpret and prioritise the result of the GOV.UK accessibility audit

**Person specification**:
We’re interested in people who have:

- familiarity with front-end development technologies, specifically HTML, CSS, JavaScript and WAI-ARIA
- expert knowledge of existing and emerging accessibility guidelines and standards, particularly the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1
- demonstrable experience of evaluating the accessibility of digital websites and providing feedback, advice and solutions to help fix identified issues
- knowledge and experience of testing with a range of assistive technologies including customised browser settings, screen magnification, screen readers, speech recognition and literacy software
- proven experience of collaborating with delivery teams to identify and fix accessibility barriers and raise accessibility capability
- demonstrable ability to write accessibility guidance and documentation, and deliver accessibility training and presentations
- experience working in flexible, agile environments and multi-disciplinary teams
- Strong negotiation skills to ensure that accessibility concerns are treated with an appropriate degree of priority
- Experience of working in government
- Experience of delivering digital services on multiple, complex or large scale end-to-end services in large organisations

**Benefits**:
The benefits of working at GDS

There are many benefits of working at GDS, including:

- flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours
- a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day e

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