Accessibility Specialist

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UNC Charlotte

Part-Time
Closes on Sunday, April 7, 2024

Job Description

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) team as part of the School of Professional Studies, is seeking an Accessibility Specialist interested in digital accessibility and ADA compliance in online courses and learning environments. The Accessibility Specialist will support the course production team in reviewing and remediating online course content and learning environments to be ADA compliant and functionally accessible to all students, including students with disabilities.
The Accessibility Specialist will be responsible for a variety of activities, including but not limited to the following:
  • Ensuring that online courses designed with the assistance of the course production team are accessible to students with a wide range of disabilities.
  • Performing accessibility testing of digital course content, which includes third-party websites, software applications, different document formats, multimedia, and Canvas content.
  • Writing remediation recommendations to faculty and staff to ensure course content follows WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines and is functionally accessible.
  • Assisting the CTL in delivering training to faculty and other campus stakeholders on the accessibility of digital materials.
  • Working with course production team, ODA, Libraries, and other campus units as needed to ensure procurement of ADA compliant products and to improve the accessibility of online materials.

UNC Charlotte
Accessibility Specialist - 120609