Extra Help - Accessibility Assistant, Digitization Center
About The Position
Milner Library’s Digitization Center is hiring an extra help Accessibility Assistant. The Digitization Center creates digital images of cultural heritage materials held in university collections, processes them, and makes them available to researchers through the library’s online platforms. The Accessibility Assistant will be responsible for remediating documents and applying alt-text to images to ensure digital accessibility compliant with mandated standards, as well as administering the Center’s account on a crowdsource platform for transcription of handwritten materials. This is a temporary extra help position for Spring/Summer 2026. Applicants must be available to work 20 hours per week. Hours are flexible. This position is not eligible for remote work.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Familiarity with accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.1 AA
- Experience creating and editing accessibility tags in PDF documents
- Experience using Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat
- Attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Ability to read handwritten cursive documents
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Good time management skills
Nice To Haves
- Coursework in library and information science
- Coursework in 19th and 20th century American history
- Experience working in GLAMRs (galleries, libraries, archives, museums, or record centers)
- Experience working in a fast-paced, production-oriented, and security-conscious environment
Responsibilities
- Complete provided training on digital accessibility standards and tools
- Remediate documents to meet accessibility standards using Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, and other tools
- Develop and apply alternative text to images in digital collections
- Apply metadata to files and upload them to online platforms
- Administer online crowdsource platform for generating manual transcripts of handwritten documents
- Name and store files to a secure network according to strict conventions
- May process images in Adobe Photoshop as needed
Benefits
- Benefits include time away from work for eligible employees and the option to participate in the University’s 403(b) Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
