Senior Accessibility Consultant

Target Target · Retail · Minneapolis, MN

Senior Accessibility Consultant at Target, responsible for ensuring digital experiences are accessible to all guests and team members by applying WCAG 2.2 AA standards throughout the development lifecycle. This role involves testing with assistive technologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams (developers, designers, product owners), and driving inclusivity in digital products.

What you'd actually do

  1. embed with teams of developers, designers and product owners responsible for creating world-class accessible experiences for Target Guests and Target Team Members
  2. learn and apply our internal accessibility procedures (based on WCAG 2.2) to digital experiences at all phases of web and app development, including discovery, design, engineering, testing and regression as an active participant with our product, technology, and design teams
  3. use assistive technologies to test all experiences for accessibility gaps prior to them going live, sometimes collaborating with members of the accessibility team to do so
  4. participate in guest research and leverage data to inform decisions
  5. help to define objectives and results with product, design, engineering and business partners

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated success applying WCAG 2.2 AA to create accessible experiences
  • Proven ability to successfully lead accessibility efforts throughout all phases of development, within projects and initiatives involving multiple cross-functional teams
  • Experience performing accessibility testing of web and app experiences with assistive technology, including keyboards and screen readers
  • Able to work well in a large organization with many partners, with a demonstrated track record of building deep relationships and influencing peers and leaders
  • Comfort operating with flexibility in your approach in order to deliver results in a fast paced, constantly changing and highly ambiguous work environment
  • Track record in using a strategic approach to solve complicated problems and strong collaboration skills in order to pull partners into your work process
  • Communicate digital accessibility needs and solutions with grace, logic and data
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Strong technical and analytical aptitude

Nice to have

  • Interest or experience in working with UX Design, UX research, Software Engineering or Product Management is a plus
  • passion for continuously improving digital experiences for people with disabilities

What the JD emphasized

  • WCAG 2.2 AA
  • accessibility testing
  • assistive technology
  • critical in driving inclusivity