Accessibility Technician

Central New Mexico Community College•Albuquerque, NM

1d•$21 - $25

About The Position

You will support all members of the CNM community in creating an inclusive and accessible learning environment. The technician will achieve this by evaluating, enhancing, and ensuring the accessibility of digital technologies and content. This includes course materials, websites, and online resources. The technician will do this observing established accessibility standards, such as WCAG, and legal requirements. This role is crucial in helping the institution meet the diverse needs of the CNM community.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED equivalent

Nice To Haves

Technical Qualifications: Proficient in Microsoft Office, Adobe, and web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Hands-on experience testing with assistive technologies (screen readers, magnifiers, voice recognition)
Expert knowledge of WCAG standards, WAI-ARIA, and accessible form design
Experience & Abilities: Experience developing and delivering training
Ability to travel between CNM campuses
Ability to quickly learn digital accessibility standards and new assistive technologies

Responsibilities

Indirect student service through collaboration with faculty, staff, IT, and institutional support: Under departmental direction, works closely with faculty to review, assess, and provide basic accessibility remediation for inaccessible course content or textbooks.
Review captioned content for accuracy. Escalate inaccurate content for professional captions or provide direct captioning of short content items as directed.
Deliver accessibility-related workshops to faculty and staff under departmental direction.
Create and present material for faculty and staff on best practices based on quality standards for WCAG/accessibility
Proctor and provide recommendations on latest educational technologies and use this information to develop training opportunities for the CNM community.
Participate in developing online self-help resources, website content, paper guides, workshops, presentations, and other support resources related to accessibility.
Direct student accommodation support, as needed: Provide information access to course content through notes for all live course activities. This includes editing and formatting notes into the required format for student accessibility needs and delivering notes to students per departmental policy.
Provide visual support, dictation, manipulation of objects, or operation of peripheral computer equipment to address specific student access needs per their accommodations.
Provide testing accommodation access for students, both on campus and virtually, through proctoring, reading, and scribing.
Support other college-wide accessibility-related projects as directed by the department.
Performs other related duties as assigned.