Accessibility Specialist

Accessibility Specialist

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Your Role

In this role, you should expect to:

• This person acts as both an educator and an enforcer – as an accessibility champion, supporting teams in ensuring accessible experiences are delivered and helping all project delivery achieve WCAG compliance.
• Conduct accessibility audits and heuristic evaluations.
• Review design and front-end deliverables for accessibility compliance.
• Create accessibility checklists and guidelines. Standardize a process internally within the company.
• Advocate for accessibility internally and with clients whenever accessibility concerns arise.
• Support planning, scoping and estimation for design proposals.
• A great opportunity to establish local accessibility best practices supported by an international community of accessibility experts.
• Driver and advocate for accessibility both at an internal and client-facing level, which if done successfully will be able to grow the accessibility offer and the team itself.

Your Profile

• 5+ years of experience in accessibility, inclusive design or UX/UI with accessibility focus. Bonus for being an expert at accessibility at all angles, but with a background in design.
• Deep understanding of WCAG standards and assistive technologies (screen readers, keyboard navigation, ARIA)
• Experience with accessibility testing tools.
• Strong communication and advocacy skills.
• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Social Sciences, IT or a related field

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE

• At Capgemini Portugal we have a flexible and dynamic work environment. Flexibility enables a better work-life balance and gives more flexibility to the employee to manage the working hours, as well if he works at the office or remotely, according with the company’s hybrid work policy; 

•  We have local programs that promote people growth, reskill and new skills development (Career Acceleration Programs); 

• We promote an empowering environment with autonomy and peers' relationships among the top scores of our Monthly Employees' feedback; 
  Next to this, we also offer an attractive compensation package and benefits such as Health and Life insurance, as well as Referral program with bonuses for talent recommendations and other fringe benefits according with our partnerships in force.  

• Capgemini Portugal is an equal opportunity employer. We promote equality and dignity in all aspects of recruitment and employment, as well as employment offers and promotions made according with competence and ability or performance, respectively. 

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.  

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