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Thomson Reuters
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**Sr.
Accessibility Specialist**
Are you a curious, smart, self-driven accessibility professional who loves working in collaboration to deliver moments of delight for customers and colleagues?
Are you excited by the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into simple elegant solutions that exceed customers' needs and expectations?
Are you excited by the challenge of working with internal teams and business stakeholders to deliver on high-impact internal projects with a focus on accessibility and the employee experience?
Come and join the Thomson Reuters Accessibility team as we grow and transform Thomson Reuters into a user-focused, customer-obsessed organization.
We aren't just changing the way customers engage with us, we are transforming and re-imagining our business.
Our customers range from small entrepreneurs to large corporations and government clients across the globe.
They are under a lot of pressure to ensure the products and services they purchase meet their business needs and are confident in knowing how to use them.
Additionally, we support the employee experience, working to ensure everyone can come to work each day, be at their best and thrive.
- Participates in user experience (UX) projects at all levels: acts as a UX project lead for medium to large projects (size and complexity).
- Advocates and represents the customer in product and platform development.
- Interprets customer and user research findings, and designs and develops effective and elegant user experiences.
- Provides creative resolution of problems or issues in order to achieve an improved future result.
- Develops user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation, and task and objective analyses.
- Develops and applies software design/usability processes in the investigation of technical problems.
- Provides UX training and mentoring to other UX staff.
- Communicates and advocates usability and product standards, practices and theories.
- Contributes to and refines establishment of department UX standards and practices.
**Role Summary**
As a **Senior** **Accessibility Specialist**, you will be a trusted, respected, partner that works closely with either UX Professionals, Product Managers, and Engineering supporting our products, or in collaboration with internal teams including but not limited to Marketing, HR, Diversity & Inclusion and General Counsel supporting business readiness and employee experience initiatives.
You will provide accessibility-related consulting and guidance to ensure all customers or employees can access and use our products and assets.
You will also be a mentor to other Accessibility Specialists and assist in educating and promoting accessibility in culture and practice within the organization.
To be effective in this role, you must have demonstrated expert level understanding of accessibility, assistive technology, and need a unique skill set of problem-solving, strong communication, and working as part of a team.
We promote an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design, and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged.
- Participates in user experience (UX) projects at all levels: acts as a UX project lead for medium to large projects (size and complexity).
- Advocates and represents the customer in product and platform development.
- Interprets customer and user research findings,
and designs and develops effective and elegant user experiences.
- Provides creative resolution of problems or issues in order to achieve an improved future result.
- Develops user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation, and task and objective analyses.
- Develops and applies software design/usability processes in the investigation of technical problems.
- Provides UX training and mentoring to other UX staff.
- Communicates and advocates usability and product standards, practices and theories.
- Contributes to and refines establishment of department UX standards and practices.
**What Makes this a Unique Opportunity**
Thomson Reuters participates in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), which creates the standards for the web,
including accessibility standards.
The Accessibility team participates in the WCAG working group (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), which is part of the W3C.
You will have the unique opportunity to participate as part of Thomson Reuters' membership.
**About You**
You are a fit for the role of** **Senior** **Accessibility Specialist,** **if you have:
- BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 7+ years of experience working as an accessibility professional.
- Expert level understanding of WCAG 2.1 (AA) guidelines.
- Expert level understanding of assistive technologies and accessibility-related software including JAWS®, NVDA, a
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