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Sistema Technologies is a Texas-based IT staffing and IT delivery firm that has proudly served Texas state and local government agencies since 2002. As one of the top 10 Texas DIR ITSAC vendors, we specialize in providing highly qualified IT professionals and comprehensive, full-lifecycle technology delivery services. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, while making our consultants our highest priority by supporting their professional growth, career success, and overall well-being.
Sistema is looking for an Accessibility Specialist with our government client based in Austin, TX for a 6 Month position.

***This Hybrid position may require onsite work at our client’s site in Austin, TX.***
***Candidates local to Austin or willing to relocate are encouraged to apply. ***
Creates and updates templates and master documents in PDF, Word, and other formats, ensuring the documents are compliant with accessibility standards; establishes and documents best practices for accessible content creation and remediation; remediates and supports the accessibility remediation of existing documents; recommends enterprise and system-level processes and solutions to aid in efficient remediation and ongoing compliance; Conducts research into accessibility documentation and best practices for authoring/development tools and platforms Provides coaching, guidance, training and technical support to document authors, content creators, and developers on remediation of EIR to meet accessibility compliance standards and improve accessibility across OCA.
Other Special Requirements:

Knowledge and skilled in accessibility guidelines, standards, rules and laws relating to accessibility for electronic information resources for people with disabilities including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA), Texas Government Code Section 2054.460, and Texas Administrative Code Chapters 206 and 213.
Ability to perform accessibility testing using manual and tool assisted methods, including identifying the relevant applicable accessibility success criterium and/or best practices.
Ability to work and communicate effectively with diverse teams including technical and non-technical staff, designers, developers, content authors, managers, purchasing staff, legal and executive leadership.

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Actual Years Experience	Years Experience Needed	Required/ Preferred	Skills/Experience
	5	Required	Experience with EIR Accessibility and assistive technologies used by people with disabilities.
	5	Required	Exerience using Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat to produce accessible documents and forms
	3	Required	Experience with HTML and PDF tag structures, attributes and properties relating to accessibility.
	2	Required	Ability to train others to author accessible documents and forms
	3	Preferred	Full-time experience in EIR including the development, implementation or interpretation of policies and procedures in a public and private agency.
	1	Preferred	Experience with automated remediation tools, document management integrations, and other system level accessibility solutions

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