Front End Developer

Position Description

Responsibilities

• The Front-End Developer builds digital products.
• The Front-End Developer ensures compliance with digital accessibility regulations and requirements by performing the following duties and responsibilities:
  • Build digital products with accessibility in mind
  • Incorporate accessibility features into digital content and resources
  • Partner with colleagues and team members to prioritize accessibility in digital content and resources

Qualifications

Required: Applicants for the Front-End Developer role are required to have these qualifications:

• Knowledge of digital accessibility and disability inclusion
• Knowledge of regulations related to digital accessibility (e.g., Section 508, ADA)
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA requirements
• Experience designing for platform technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, iOS, Android)
• Experience applying WAI-ARIA authoring guidelines and best practices
• Experience optimizing for the accessibility features of the platform (HTML, iOS, Android)
• Experience developing digital products that comply with accessibility standards

Preferred: Applicants with the following qualifications will be preferred:

• Experience incorporating accessibility tests into the development process
• Experience building digital products where compliance with accessibility standards is part of “definition of done”

Interview Questions

Screening

• Knowledge of digital accessibility and disability inclusion
  • Who benefits from accessibility?
  • How would you define inclusive and/or universal design? Can you provide an example? (Does not need to be web related)
  • What resources would you recommend to someone who wants to keep informed of the latest updates on accessibility and inclusive design?
• Experience developing digital products that comply with accessibility standards
  • How do you see accessibility fitting into your role in the organization?
  • How do you incorporate accessibility into your day to day activities? (Email, document creation, when presenting content, etc.). Give an overview of the process you go through for (insert example).
  • What educational resources would you recommend to a developer or designer that wants to improve their accessibility skills?
  • What manual testing techniques do you use to confirm a product is accessible and usable while developing?

Interview Committee

Required

• Knowledge of regulations related to digital accessibility (e.g., Section 508, ADA)
  • Describe the difference between Section 504 and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
  • Describe the difference between Section 508 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA requirements
  • What is WCAG? What are the differences between A, AA, and AAA compliance?
  • What are the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines and what are some of the benefits of using these guidelines when creating an authoring tool?
• Experience designing for platform technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, iOS, Android)
  • Describe appropriate instances to use a link, versus a generic button, versus a submit button.
• Experience applying WAI-ARIA authoring guidelines and best practices
  • When should you use or recommend ARIA roles or attributes to solve an accessibility issue?
• Experience optimizing for the accessibility features of the platform (HTML, iOS, Android)
  • Describe how responsive design relates to and affects accessibility.
• Experience developing digital products that comply with accessibility standards
  • How can carousels be problematic for users with disabilities?
  • Explain the difference between operable and non-operable content. What is the expected navigation experience for operable content? What is the expected navigation experience for non-operable content?
  • What are landmark regions and how can they be useful? Why do you need to implement a visible Skip to Main Content link and not just the landmark regions?
  • What is an accessible name? How does the implementation of an accessible name matter for speech recognition?

Preferred

• Experience incorporating accessibility tests into the development process
  • What processes and tools have you used to measure the accessibility of a product?
  • What do you define as manual testing and how have you incorporated manual testing into the development process?
  • Describe an instance where an automated test would not flag a blatant accessibility error.

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