Library Graduate Digital Accessibility Lead (Graduate Student Wage)

University of Virginia•Charlottesville, VA

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Library Digital Accessibility Lead is responsible for leading one of two sub-teams within the UVA Library Digital Accessibility Student Team: Captioning & Transcription or PDF & Document Remediation. This role involves direct supervision of two undergraduate assistants, providing task direction, quality review, and mentorship. The Lead also performs advanced production work in their chosen track and contributes to workflow design, documentation, and program assessment. This position is ideal for graduate students seeking professional experience in accessibility program management, library services, or related fields. Specific responsibilities will vary depending on the selected track.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
Registered as a graduate student.
Prior experience with captioning, transcription, or audio/video editing.
Familiarity with captioning platforms such as YouTube Studio, Verbit, 3Play Media, or Amara.
Experience with or interest in linguistics, a second language, or translingual content.
Prior experience with PDF editing, document formatting, or accessibility remediation.
Familiarity with Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Word accessibility features, or HTML/document structure concepts.
Background in a STEM field or familiarity with technical notation (formulas, equations, diagrams).
Familiarity with version control or document management practices, such as tracking file versions, naming conventions, and organized handoffs.
Interest in disability studies, media accessibility, or library and information science.

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day direction to two undergraduate Assistants, including task assignment, workload pacing, and deadline management.
Review all undergraduate output before final submission, applying established quality benchmarks.
Deliver structured, constructive written feedback to undergraduate team members on a regular basis.
Serve as the first point of escalation for undergraduate questions, edge cases, and complex or unfamiliar material.
Document recurring quality issues and communicate patterns to the Digital Accessibility Specialist to support training improvements.
Handle materials requiring specialized accessibility judgment.
Maintain accurate production logs and contribute to team throughput tracking.
Contribute to workflow documentation and onboarding materials.
Develop or refine quality checklists and standards for use by undergraduate team members.
Contribute to documentation of institutional accessibility standards and guidelines.
Support end-of-semester assessment of throughput, quality metrics, and team sustainability.
Participate in cross-team coordination with the other Graduate Leads as needed.
Create accurate captions and transcripts for Library digital media using captioning software tools.
Edit and correct auto-generated captions to meet quality standards for timing, accuracy, speaker identification, and readability.
Edit captions and transcripts for materials with multiple speakers, background noise, or technical vocabulary, applying judgment about clarity and speaker attribution.
Follow established style guides and quality benchmarks for caption formatting.
Submit completed work to the Graduate Captioning Specialist for quality review and incorporate feedback.
Assist with quality review of LLM-generated captions for non-English language media as directed by the Graduate Captioning Specialist.
Flag accuracy concerns and document recurring issues for pilot evaluation.
Design and document test protocols for evaluating AI-generated captions in non-English languages.
Evaluate third-party and AI-generated caption outputs against FCC caption quality standards and WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.2, documenting error patterns by type for pilot reporting.
Coordinate undergraduate quality review of pilot outputs and synthesize reviewer feedback.
Contribute findings and recommendations to the pilot evaluation report.
Remediate PDF and document files to meet WCAG 2.1 AA and PDF/UA accessibility standards.
Correct and add reading order, semantic tags, heading structure, alt text for images, and document metadata using Adobe Acrobat Pro.
Apply quality control for complex content types such as tables, charts, and multi-column layouts, flagging items that require escalation to the Graduate Remediation Specialist.
Perform remediation of complex or priority documents, including materials with mathematical content, multi-column layouts, data tables, forms, or scanned content requiring OCR correction.
Handle escalated files that exceed undergraduate skill level or require specialized accessibility judgment.
Apply the full remediation tool stack as needed: SensusAccess, Equidox, Adobe Acrobat Pro, PAC 2024.
Assist with evaluation of third-party tools and vendor accessibility documentation (VPATs) against WCAG 2.1 AA standards, as directed by the Digital Accessibility Specialist.