Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Digital Accessibility by WeCo is a mission-based company focused on improving digital accessibility. The Certified Test Consultant role involves participating in usability testing and providing feedback on digital platforms to help identify accessibility barriers.
Responsibilities
- Completing guided usability testing activities for websites, software, mobile applications, or digital documents
- Sharing honest feedback about digital experiences, accessibility barriers, frustrations, or successes encountered during testing
- Participating in live usability sessions, recorded sessions, surveys, interviews, or group discussions
- Communicating observations in a respectful, professional, and constructive manner
- Completing assigned testing activities within communicated timelines
- Explaining how disability-related needs, assistive technology, adaptive techniques or personal strategies, impact the way digital platforms are accessed and used
Skills
- Living with a disability as part of subject matter expertise
- Comfortable discussing technology use, digital barriers, usability experiences, and participating in role-related evaluation activities such as practice tests or demonstrations
- Lived experience navigating digital platforms with the use of assistive technology, accessibility settings, personal strategies, or other ways of navigating digital tools
- Comfortable sharing feedback and discussing their personal digital experiences
- Comfortable participating in live virtual sessions, recorded sessions, or on-camera testing environments
- Comfortable discussing how their lived experience influences the way they access and interact with digital platforms
- Can independently navigate websites, applications, or mobile devices at a basic level or above
- Regularly use assistive technology or adaptive techniques in daily life, when relevant to their digital experiences
- Dependable, respectful, and able to communicate professionally
- Can complete assigned activities independently or consistently work with support when needed
- Have access to a laptop, desktop computer, or mobile device capable of participating in testing activities
- Have access to internet service and a space that allows participation in remote testing sessions
Company Overview
Who We Are: WeCo is a mission-based company that believes that usability is part of accessibility. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://theweco.com.