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Job Description:
Title: Web Accessibility Engineer
Req Number: mit-00002002
WEB ACCESSIBILITY ENGINEER, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, to ensure that core web technologies support accessibility for people with disabilities as part of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Will assist in developing guidelines, techniques, and test suites for authoring tools, browsers, and media players; provide staff support to W3C WAI (http://www.w3.org/WAI/) working groups; assist in reviewing W3C technologies while under development to ensure their support for accessibility and develop and negotiate technical solutions for accessibility requirements; manage issues lists for comments received on working group documents; edit working group documents; and maintain working group resource pages. Will also give presentations on W3C/WAI technical work, provide technical assistance on implementation of WAI guidelines, and liaise with organizations pursuing related work.
REQUIREMENTS: computer science or related degree; a minimum of two years' experience working in team settings; and in-depth knowledge of W3C technologies and WAI guidelines, including WCAG, ATAG, UAAG, XAG, and EARL.
Must be familiar with the web industry, accessibility support in mainstream web technologies, assistive technology, disability communities, and the accessibility research community. Excellent oral and written communication skills needed. Must be available to travel. Knowledge of project management, W3C process, web applications, QA procedures, CMS, user interface design, VoiceXML, RDF, Semantic Web, and DOM preferred.