Digital Accessibility by WeCo is a mission-based company founded and managed by certified digital accessibility experts living with disabilities. We guide organizations in making their websites/software/mobile applications accessible to people living with disabilities through direct human connection and feedback. While we have a strong focus on employing talented professionals with disabilities, we are an equal opportunity employer who believes in creating a welcoming and diverse work environment.

About Digital Accessibility by WeCo

Digital Accessibility by WeCo is a digital service company which helps organizations make websites/software/mobile applications accessible by providing them with direct access to subject matter experts who live with disabilities. We are a company founded and staffed by digital technologists who live with disabilities with a strong outreach to communications and administrative professionals who live with disabilities. WeCo is an equal opportunity employer with a dual mission of helping organizations create accessible digital venues and providing career opportunities to talented professionals who may be overlooked by traditional work environments.

Key Responsibilities

The key responsibility of the Certified Test Consultant (or CTC) Independent Contractor role is to engage the unique insights of an individual living with a disability or disabilities in their life experience, in performing user-experience tests for websites, software, mobile applications and other electronic venues, for WeCo’s clients.

WeCo currently is looking for candidates who are native eye tracking software users. All other candidates will be reviewed and filed.

Desired Results

The WeCo Certified Test Consultant role builds upon the unique perspective of individuals living with disabilities and pairs them with WeCo’s proprietary Disability-Focused Usability Testing method.

1. The Certified Test Consultant will successfully participate in WeCo’s Disability-Focused Usability Test Cases.
2. The Certified Test Consultant will successfully engage in conveying the insights of their own digital experience, through the lens of their disability, to WeCo clients.

Additional Contract Earning Opportunities

Qualified Certified Test Consultants at WeCo can also expand their contract earning opportunities into a variety of roles within our company. Additional training is required for each. Some of these include:

• Public Speaking
• Alternative Text Remediation
• Specialized Usability Testing Projects

Skills, Traits and Competencies

• Live with one or more disability that impacts how they function using computers and mobile phones
• NOTE: WeCo reserves the right to select individuals who live with a given type of disability or disabilities, that is required currently for us to fill testing roles to meet our client’s immediate needs.
• Mastery of assistive technology used to access website and software, if applicable to a person’s disability.
• Ability to navigate websites and software at a basic level or above. (ability to navigate and interact with forms, modals, etc. via keyboard commands and/or mouse actions)
• Applicants must be willing to disclose information regarding their disability for testing work
• Have access to a laptop or desktop computer.
• Access to and ability to create a document in Microsoft Word.
• The ability to access websites via one or more types of mobile device.
• The ability to complete work independent of supervision OR be positioned to work consistently with assistance to complete assigned work on time and to the expectation level communicated by the company.
• Space to work from home or create a home office environment.

Time Commitment

This is “piece work,” meaning assignments are provided when client projects come in, and there are no guaranteed hours or minimum number of projects each month. Contractors are free to accept or decline individual assignments based on their availability.