Accessibility Specialist

**Accessibility Specialist**

Are you a curious, smart, self-driven accessibility professional who loves working in collaboration to deliver moments of delight for customers and colleagues? Are you excited by the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into simple elegant solutions that exceed customer’s needs and expectations? Are you excited by the challenge of working across internal teams and business stakeholders to deliver on high-impact internal projects with a focus on accessibility and the employee experience?

Come and join the Thomson Reuters Accessibility team as we grow and transform Thomson Reuters into a user focused, customer-obsessed organization. We aren’t just changing the way customers engage with us, we are transforming and re-imagining our business. Our customers range from small entrepreneurs to large corporations and government clients across the globe. They are under a lot of pressure to ensure the products and services they purchase meet their business needs and are confident in knowing how to use them. Additionally, we support the employee experience, working to ensure everyone can come to work each day, be at their best and thrive.

**Role Summary**
As an Accessibility Specialist, you will be a trusted, respected, partner that works closely with either UX Professionals, Product Managers, and Engineering supporting our products, or you will work in collaboration with internal teams including but not limited to Marketing, HR, Diversity & Inclusion and General Counsel supporting business readiness and employee experience initiatives. You will provide accessibility related consulting and guidance to ensure all customers or employees can access and use our products and assets. You will also assist in educating and promoting accessibility in culture and practice within an enterprise organization. To be effective in this role, you must have a demonstrated level of understanding of accessibility, assistive technology, and need a unique skillset of problem solving, strong communication and working as part of a team. We promote an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design, and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged.

**About the Role**
**What Makes this a Unique Opportunity**

Thomson Reuters participates in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), which creates the standards for the web, including accessibility standards. The Accessibility team participates in the WCAG working group (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), which is part of the W3C. You will have the unique opportunity to participate as part of Thomson Reuters’ membership.

**About You**
You are a fit for the role of **Accessibility Specialist**, if you have:

- BA/BS in information science, information design, computer science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 3+ years of experience working as an accessibility professional.
- Must be fluent in WCAG 2.1 (AA) guidelines and understand WAI-ARIA, UAAG, and ATAG specifications.
- Thorough understanding of assistive technologies and accessibility-related software including JAWS®, NVDA, and Dragon® NaturallySpeaking.
- Demonstrated experience providing implementation direction and requirements to design, front-end development, engineering, and internal business teams such as marketing or customer support.
- Ability to collaborate with a Design System team to create and document composable UI elements in a number of environments (Figma, HTML/CSS) leveraging system foundations and patterns.
- Knowledge of document accessibility and remediation, including PDF.
- General awareness of Section 508, ADA, AODA, and EN 301 549.
- Experience and understanding of Agile development practices.
- Ability to work collaboratively and productively both with diverse teams and independently.
- Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills.
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and presentation skills.

Assistive Technology users strongly encouraged to apply.

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**What’s in it For You?**

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

- ** Industry-Leading Benefits**: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- ** Flexibility & Work-Life Balance**: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for