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Content Accessibility Specialist

McGraw Hill

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ID: 5569

Posted On 04/30/2025

Job Overview

Overview

Impact the Moment

When was the last time you experienced the impact of your work? Our **Content Accessibility Specialist** team thrives on building meaningful relationships with educators and learners. With that comes the unique opportunity to touch lives across the world and experience first-hand the difference your hard work makes.

How can you make an impact?

The McGraw Hill Higher Education Content Accessibility Team is seeking an experienced, thoughtful, and innovative **Content Accessibility Specialist** . Join our team in building and remediating content to meet the latest accessibility standards, inclusive design principles, and accessibility best practices. In this role you will work closely with product and platform teams, authors, subject matter experts, vendors, designers, and developers to create digital learning experiences that are accessible, inclusive, seamless, intuitive, and a joy to learn with.

Note: This is neither a coding nor a QA role; it focuses on guiding how content is authored in our systems.

**This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.** This position may require minimal domestic travel, including occasional team meetings at our midtown Manhattan, New York office.

What you will be doing:

+ Work closely with the Content Accessibility Team, in particular the Digital Content Accessibility Manager, to develop and execute content accessibility strategy.

+ Demonstrate or develop proficiency in accessibility standards, guidelines, and best practices as they apply to education and digital learning materials (ePub, HTML/CSS/ARIA, accessible documents, custom-coded interactives, etc.). Stay up-to-date on latest best practices in accessibility and disability communities and amend internal guidelines as applicable.

+ Collaborate with product and platform teams, authors, subject matter experts, vendors, designers, and developers to provide guidance on creating accessible content and products. Train and educate internal teams on accessibility best practices and tools.

+ Design and document quality assurance testing plans and processes for new product components.

+ Partner with Digital Platform Group and Product Owners on tool and platform remediation plans. Update authoring guidelines for remediated platforms and tools to ensure clarity and accessible content creation and/or conversion.

+ Model and advocate for accessibility and inclusive design across the organization in every single aspect of work.

We’re looking for someone with:

+ Experience building or remediating accessible digital content and familiarity with accessibility standards such as WCAG and Section 508. (Three plus years preferred.)

+ Demonstrable skill at critically analyzing situations from multiple, sometimes competing, viewpoints and providing practical solutions.

+ Willingness to take both initiative and direction.

+ Advanced skills in training and in writing how-to documentation.

+ Solid command of at least two of the following:

+ Accessibility standards such as WCAG and Section 508.

+ Using assistive technologies such as screen readers (e.g. JAWS, NVDA), speech-to-text, and alternate input devices.

+ ePub accessibility techniques.

+ Accessible HTML, CSS, and ARIA.

+ Accessible document formats, such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and PDFs.

+ Instructional design.

+ Universal design for learning.

+ Experience working in Microsoft Office applications, Confluence, JIRA, and Smartsheet; experience conducting user testing with individuals with disabilities and CPACC certification are preferred.

Why work for us?

At McGraw Hill, you will be empowered to make a real impact on a global scale. Every day your individual efforts contribute to the lives of millions.

The pay range for this position is between $50,000 - $80,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.

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Job Details

Categories

Information Technology/Telecommunications

Publishing/Printing

Location

Remote, Remote

Job Type

Employee

Full/Part

Full Time

Company ID

695

Job REQ #

5569

\# Positions

1

Start Date

20250430

End Date

20250619

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About the Company

At McGraw Hill, we believe that our contribution to unlocking a brighter future lies within the application of our deep understanding of how learning happens and how the mind develops. It exists where the science of learning meets the art of teaching.

Educators have been and always will be at the core of the learning experience. The solutions we develop help educators impart their knowledge to students more efficiently. We believe that harnessing technology can enhance learning inside and outside of the classroom and deepen the connections between students and teachers to empower greater success.

By partnering with educators around the globe, our learning engineers, content developers and pedagogical experts are developing increasingly open learning ecosystems that are proven to improve pass rates, elevate grades and increase engagement for each individual learner while improving outcomes for all.

Why? Because learning changes everything.

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