Digital Accessibility Specialist (Temporary W2)

Anthro-Tech is seeking a Digital Accessibility Consultant to ensure that our clients digital products and services are accessible to everyone. Your expertise is needed to conduct accessibility audits and reviews of their websites and mobile applications. Clients will also be looking for training support and guidance on how to implement accessible design and educate their organizations about accessibility. For our human-centered design (HCD) projects youll work closely with user researchers designers and clients to ensure that content and design support an inclusive user experience strategy. Youll be improving huge client websites and digital products and improving organizational capacity for digital accessibility. Youll be working with government organizations with diverse audiences non-profits with inspiring missions and technology pioneers.

This is a contract part-time to full-time role with flexible hours and the potential to turn into a permanent full-time position.

• Conducted an automated accessibility audit of a website with tools like Axe DevTools or a manual accessibility review across multiple devices and platforms
• Developed detailed audit reports including prioritized findings and recommendations for fixing issues
• Remediated PDFs
• Drafted ACR or VPATs
• Presented accessibility findings to executives designers developers and other stakeholders
• Taught workshops in accessibility for government agency employees
• Collaborated with our designers to apply accessibility best practices to design work in progress
• Collaborated with our content strategists to support their work creating accessible content
• Developed an improvement strategy and roadmap for accessibility on a large information-rich website
• Consulted on accessibility remediation
• Taught or mentored others how to conduct manual and automated evaluations
• Support our researchers with a user research or usability study with key user groups including people with a variety of disabilities to determine how easy/difficult it is for all users to find and interact with the information they need

Experience is important. Were looking for someone who has conducted automated and manual accessibility audits developed remediation plans and roadmaps someone who knows WCAG through and through and has helped others through the process of making accessibility improvements. We have a smart and inspired team of researchers and designers who care deeply about our clients our work and our company. To fit in a person has to be driven to add value and comfortable with technology uncertainty and a collaborative entrepreneurial environment. You should consider yourself a professional and love solving problems and getting things done. This is a consulting position so you need to enjoy rolling up your sleeves and helping client organizations tackle challenging large-scale projects efficiently leaving them with the skills they need to maintain the improvements you achieve together. Qualifications include:

• Experience conducting WCAG 2.1-2.2 AA and Section 508 automated and manual evaluations for websites and web or mobile applications
• Strong familiarity with WCAG 2.1- 2.2 AA and Section 508 familiarity with WCAG 2.2 and 3.0 and emerging accessibility best practices
• At least 3 years of professional experience in a role that includes digital accessibility responsibilities
• A bachelors degree or compelling work experience

• Certification in CPACC (certified professional in accessibility core competencies) DSHS Trusted Tester or equivalent
• Experience teaching coaching or mentoring others in accessibility
• Experience working as a consultant and managing accessibility projects

This is a temporary remote W-2 position offering part-time to full-time support on an as-needed basis starting as soon as possible through July 2026 with the potential for extension.

Youll be assigned to specific projects with estimated weekly hours (040) provided in advance to support planning. We aim to confirm your schedule at least one week ahead.

Team collaboration typically occurs between 8:00 AM and 2:00 PM Pacific Time. Outside those hours your schedule is flexible and can be arranged with your manager.

Anthro-Tech offers competitive compensation and limited benefits for this role including:

• Paid Time Off (PTO) - youll accrue PTO for each hour you work. Full-time team members accrue approximately 15 PTO days per year

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set level of experience and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role of Digital Accessibility Specialist (Contract) is $41.50 - $48.50 per hour.

• Cover letter stating your background salary requirements and reason for interest in working with Anthro-Tech.
• Resume and a short write-up describing your most significant contributions to making an impact on the accessibility of a product or service. Were looking for a track record of experience and dedication.

Thank you for your interest!

Anthro-Tech is a human-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies nonprofits and enterprises with a social impact mission. We help organizations gain a deep understanding of their customers through research to design products and services that are usable useful and make a positive impact on peoples everyday lives.

Over the past 20 years weve partnered with many organizations to transform how they engage their customers including dozens of county state and federal government organizations Goodwill Meta The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Anthro-Tech was founded in 1997. We are a woman-owned business with offices and user experience labs in Olympia and Seattle Washington.

We are driven by our purpose to build a great business that makes things better for people.

Our values:

1. Help others succeed
2. Set the bar high
3. Be optimistic AND face the brutal facts
4. Continually learn and grow expertise
5. Passionate about making an impact