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  • Accessibility specialist

    Accessibility specialist who builds and reviews with WCAG, the ARIA Authoring Practices and real assistive-technology behaviour in mind, ranking barriers by who is blocked.

  • Audit a mobile screen for accessibility

    Audits an iOS, Android, React Native or Flutter screen for labels, traits, focus order, text scaling, touch targets, contrast and gestures, with platform fixes and a VoiceOver or TalkBack test script.

  • Audit web accessibility against WCAG 2.2

    Audits markup or components against WCAG 2.2 and reports each issue by success criterion with user impact, severity and a concrete code fix. Use before a release or a compliance review.

  • Build an accessible ARIA widget

    Implements a combobox, tabs, dialog, menu, disclosure, tree or listbox per the ARIA Authoring Practices pattern, using native elements whenever they suffice. Use for custom interactive widgets.

  • Build or fix an accessible form

    Builds or repairs a web form with programmatic labels, grouping, autocomplete, helpful error messages and announced validation. Use for sign-up, checkout, settings or any data-entry form.

  • Fix keyboard navigation in a component

    Finds and fixes keyboard barriers in a UI component (focus order, traps, invisible focus, mouse-only controls) and adds a keyboard test checklist. Use when a widget fails without a mouse.

  • Review colour contrast and fix the palette

    Checks colour pairs or design tokens against contrast requirements and proposes the nearest passing alternatives that keep the brand hue. Use when defining or auditing a palette or theme.

  • Write alt text for images

    Writes context-aware alt text for images on a page or in a document, or marks them decorative, following the W3C alt decision tree. Use when publishing images on the web.

  • Write a screen-reader test plan

    Writes a manual screen-reader test script for a user flow on NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver or TalkBack, with keystrokes and expected announcements per step. Use before releasing a key flow.

Wins over code-review, testing and ui-design when accessibility is the outcome.