Accessibility Specialist

Overview

Edifecs is seeking an experienced Accessibility Specialist to be part of the Experience Design team. The Accessibility Specialist will work as part of a small team on the next generation of products, tools, and platforms for IT Healthcare products. The ideal candidate will posses a blend of technical, analytical, and interpersonal skills to ensure Edifecs applications and user assistance resources comply with web accessibility standards and regulations. This role requires an excellent communicator who is well-versed in explaining and implementing accessibility and disability standards, regulations, and best practices including WCAG 2.2, Section 508, WAI-ARIA, and VPAT repoprting.

What you will do:

• Methodically assess and report on accessibility of Edifecs applications and user assistance resources.
• Work with QA team to ensure to integrate accessibility-related assessments into their practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accessibility improvements are correctly implemented.
• Monitor the accessibility status across Edifecs product and publish reports periodically.
• Stay abreast of accessibility trends and standards, ensuring alignment with current best practices.

What you will bring:

• A bachelor’s or higher degree in the field of Computer Science/ User Experience Design (human-computer interaction/interaction design) or in a related field. Accessibility-related certification is preferred.
• 3-5 years of industry experience in quality assurance related to accessibility assessment for software products.
• Demonstrable knowledge of WCAG 2.2, Section 508, WAI-ARIA standards/guidelines/regulations.
• Familiarity with accessibility testing tools (e.g., Axe, WAVE, JAWS, NVDA).
• Hand-on experience performing accessibility assessments, documenting results, and following through to ensure adherence.
• Solid understanding of inclusive design principles and an obsessive eye for visual and interaction details.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal. Must be willing and able to proactively reach out to stakeholders and team members for collaboration and support.

About Edifecs

Edifecs is a premier technology company serving the U.S. healthcare market that empowers its customers to transform healthcare. For over 25 years, Edifecs has provided the market-leading interoperability platform. Edifecs payer and provider customers and technology partners are driving healthcare transformation with the ability to seamlessly exchange, unify, and normalize data to derive insights and intelligence and replace friction with collaboration across all stakeholders. Edifecs’ platform is the foundation to help customers overcome healthcare’s biggest challenges, including accelerating the adoption of value-based payment models, securing complete and accurate care funding for alternative payment models, and fully automating prior authorization.

Edifecs offers natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to provide deeper insights into patients, populations, and business processes. As new standards and regulations continually emerge government agencies, Edifecs is a proven partner to ensure its customers maintain “evergreen” compliance. Edifecs customers cover 290 million lives and include 100% of national health plans, 70% of state Medicaid programs, and 94% of the lives covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield payers. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Mohali, India, and has more than 1000+ employees.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Our corporate credo of innovation, collaboration, customer-centricity, and integrity drive and inform all our actions and decisions. Please contact [email protected] for more information.