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Accessibility Jobs, Nov 2016

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Post date November 23, 2016
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More great opportunities in the digital accessibility field (all U.S.):

Web Accessibility/Usability Expert at Optum in Raleigh, NC.
Director of Digital Accessibility, Perkins School for the Blind in MA.
Head of Accessibility at Twitch in San Francisco, CA.
Summer 2017 Accessibility UX Engineer Student Intern at Salesforce in San Francisco, CA.
Mobile iOS Accessibility Engineer at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA.
Digital Accessibility Specialist at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
HP is hiring an Accessibility Testing Program Manager, part-time (20 hours a week), San Francisco Bay Area, contact sam.ogami AT hp DOT com for more information.

For more, on Twitter follow me (@WebAxe) and @a11yJobs.

Assistive Technology Surveys

Post author By Dennis
Post date November 22, 2016
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Digital accessibility experts are often asked about the usage of screen readers and assistive technologies. For example, one will often ask “What’s the most popular screen reader?” This is difficult (if not impossible) to determine technically, but also has privacy implications and other problems.

The following two surveys provide great data and are provided by very reputable organizations. Keep in mind though that the respondents were not controlled and the sample sizes are relatively low.

Screen Reader User Survey #6 Results by WebAIM (2015)
Screen Reader User Survey #7 Results by WebAIM (2017)
GOV.UK assistive technology survey (2016)

Are you aware of any other recent surveys?

Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners #2 by WebAIM (2018)
Accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages by WebAIM (2019)

A person using assistive technology.

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Accessibility Jobs, June 2016

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Post date June 20, 2016
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Some great opportunities! (All U.S.)

Accessibility Tester (Section 508) at VFO (Freedom Scientific & Optelec Brands) in New York City, NY
Senior Accessibility UX at BBT bank in Raleigh, NC
Workday seeks a User Experience Accessibility Associate Product Manager, Pleasanton, CA
SSB BART Group seeks a Manager of Digital Accessibility Consulting, San Francisco, CA
SSB BART Group seeks an Accessibility Team Lead, in San Francisco, CA
Google seeks a Software Engineer, Accessibility, Mountain View, CA
Akraya is sourcing a contract Accessibility Specialist (6 mo+), San Mateo CA
Personnel is sourcing a full-time Accessibility Expert (Insurance industry), San Francisco, CA
Added: Lead Accessibility Specialist at Wells Fargo (multiple locations)

For the Silicon Valley/CA jobs, credit to @jennison @a11ybay @a11yjobs.

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Accessible Date Pickers

Unfortunately, several shiny HTML5 features (such as the video element), ended up implemented to different levels by browsers, without good accessibility, and without an interface that satisfied designers (a nearly impossible task). This includes the date input.

And a designer should first ask, is a date picker actually needed?

Recently on Twitter, there was some discussion about accessible date picker widgets. Jason Kiss (@JKiss) did some analysis and gave feedback.

~~https://twitter.com/jkiss/status/720720467829493760~~ (Tweet no longer exists.)

I felt compelled to list the examples of accessible date pickers mentioned in the Twitter thread, so here they are. Know any other good ones?