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SalaryAbout Digital Accessibility by WeCo
Digital Accessibility by WeCo is a digital service company which helps organizations make websites/software/mobile applications accessible by providing them with direct access to subject matter experts who live with disabilities. We are a company founded and staffed by digital technologists who live with disabilities with a strong outreach to communications and administrative professionals who live with disabilities. WeCo is an equal opportunity employer with a dual mission of helping organizations create accessible digital venues and providing career opportunities to talented professionals who may be overlooked by traditional work environments.
Key Responsibilities
The key responsibility of the Certified Test Consultant (or CTC) Independent Contractor role is to engage the unique insights an individual living with a disability or disabilities in their life experience, in performing user-experience tests for websites, software, mobile applications and other electronic venues, for WeCo’s clients.
Desired Results
The WeCo Certified Test Consultant role builds upon the unique perspective of individuals living with disabilities and pairs them with WeCo’s proprietary Disability-Focused Usability Testing method.
- The Certified Test Consultant will successfully participate in WeCo’s Disability-Focused Usability Test Cases.
- The Certified Test Consultant will successfully engage in conveying the insights of their own digital experience, through the lens of their disability, to WeCo clients
Additional Contract Earning Opportunities
Qualified Certified Test Consultants at WeCo can also expand their contract earning opportunities into a variety of roles within our company. Additional training is required for each.
Some of these include:
- Public Speaking
- Manual Accessibility Audit Delivery
- Specialized Usability Testing Projects
Skills, Traits and Competencies
- Live with one or more disability that impacts how they function using computers and mobile phones (see Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications for this Position)
- NOTE: WeCo reserves the right to select individuals who live with a given type of disability or disabilities, that is required currently for us to fill testing roles to meet our client’s immediate needs.
- Mastery of assistive technology used to access website and software, if applicable to a person’s disability.
- Ability to navigate websites and software at a basic level or above. (ability to navigate and interact with forms, modals, etc. via keyboard commands and/or mouse actions)
- Have access to a laptop or desktop computer.
- Access to and ability to create a document in Microsoft Word.
- The ability to access websites via one or more types of mobile device.
- The ability to complete work independent of supervision OR be positioned to work consistently with assistance to complete assigned work on time and to the expectation level communicated by the company.
- Space to work from home or create a home office environment.
New to testing?
WeCo offers training to talented professionals who live with disabilities to become digital subject matter experts with the goal of helping organizations find practical ways to make their online and electronic venues accessible to a wider range of people living with disabilities.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications
- Questions about the disability requirement for this position?Please see Chapter 14 of the US Equal Opportunity Commission Part 1625.6 Qualified Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications and Minnesota State Statute 363A.08 Sub-division 4 relating to this requirement.
Applicants must be willing to disclose information regarding their disability for testing work.
