Accessible Document Specialist

Princeton University • Princeton, NJ

1d • $80,000 - $85,000

About The Position

The Princeton University Library seeks an experienced and motivated document accessibility professional with a strong service commitment to work in the Library’s Fulfillment Services unit.
The Accessible Document Specialist supports accommodations for students with disabilities by evaluating and remediating course readings to ensure they are fully accessible to users of assistive technologies. It includes digitizing and remediating materials, as well as coordinating with third parties for complex or high-volume remediation needs.
The Specialist partners closely with the Office of Disability Services and faculty to ensure accessible course materials are made available to students.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum of three years of professional experience authoring accessible documents
• Complete understanding of best practices for authoring accessible documents
• Experience writing contextually meaningful alternative text for images, charts, diagrams, and equations
• Ability to meet relevant WCAG criteria
• Experience using screen readers and text-to-speech tools to test accessibility
• Experience with common document remediation or format conversion tools such as ABBYY FineReader, Adobe Acrobat, or Sensus Access
• Knowledge of common tools for creating braille, large print, PDF, and EPUB documents
• Knowledge of or work experience in disability services practices and procedures
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills, including working independently
• Initiative, flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing work priorities
• Commitment to confidentiality
• Commitment to professional development
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to engagement with a diverse population

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in education, rehabilitation, or related field
• Work experience in higher education
• Work experience in an academic library environment
• Work experience with online course management systems such as Canvas

Responsibilities

• Receive digitization and remediation requests for course readings from the Office of Disability Services (ODS) and determine the strategy for fulfilling requests.
• Collaborate with ODS, faculty, and students to align on requirements and to determine the degree of remediation needed.
• Triage requests to ensure that readings are remediated and delivered in a timely manner.
• Source digital and print versions of course readings, verifying edition and format, and evaluating quality.
• Remediate readings to ensure they are accessible to assistive technologies per current accessibility standards.
• Engage with vendors by submitting requests and materials, tracking progress, and validating quality, and share completed deliverables with the Office of Disability Services.
• Direct faculty and instructional assistants to related campus resources as needed.
• Further professional competence in accessibility and remediation to serve student needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level