Diversity and Equity Specialist

Accessibility Responsibilities

• The Diversity and Equity Specialist promotes inclusion of the disability community along with other marginalized communities in spaces where they are often not included.
• The Diversity and Equity Specialist educates people on disability inclusion as part of their role, including the importance of digital accessibility.
• The Diversity and Equity Specialist leads by example by:
  • Incorporating digital accessibility into all communications, including emails, documents, social media posts, and online events.
  • Sharing lived experience stories by members of the disability community.
  • Using language supported by the disability community.

Qualifications

Required

Applicants for the Diversity and Equity Specialist role are required to have these qualifications:

• Knowledge of digital accessibility and disability inclusion
• Knowledge of digital content accessibility best practices
• Knowledge of the social model, biopsychosocial model, and human rights models of disability
• Knowledge of both identity first and person first disability language and why both are important.

Preferred

• Knowledge of key milestones in the disability rights movement

Recruitment Questions

Behavioral

• Knowledge of digital accessibility and disability inclusion.
  • Who benefits from accessibility?
• Knowledge of digital content accessibility best practices
  • What is alt text and why is it important?

Technical

• Knowledge of digital accessibility and disability inclusion
  • Provide an overview of how you would make a virtual event accessible?
  • Explain why using either camel case or pascal case for a hashtag in a social media post is important.
  • Why are both captions and transcripts needed for videos, and not either or?
• Knowledge of the social model, biopsychosocial model, and human rights models of disability
  • Provide an overview of the social model of disability and how it compares to the medical model of disability?
• Knowledge of both identity first and person first disability language and why both are important.
  • Provide an overview of identity-first language and why it is important.

Translations

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Reminder

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