Content Accessibility Lead

Content Accessibility Lead

Internal title: Associate Director, Content Accessibility

College Board – Learning & Assessment

Location: This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.

Role Type : This is a full-time position

About the Team

The Content Accessibility team at College Board has the privilege and responsibility of ensuring that College Board assessments are accessible for individuals with disabilities. Our work is both specialized and broad: we work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to write and review image descriptions, consult with technology teams to improve accessibility supports in authoring tools, and collaborate with accessibility and accommodations specialists across the organization to ensure test content meets policy and the needs of test-takers. We not only advocate for universal design, we live it.

About the Opportunity

As a Content Accessibility Lead, you have two primary audiences for your work: the first is students who take College Board assessments, especially those who do so using assistive technology. The second is the makers of College Board assessments. You are a bridge between those audiences.

Being a bridge means your work is often focused: you write and review image descriptions, review caption tracks, and apply headings to ensure every test question meets accessibility guidelines. And when we say every test question, we mean it. When it comes to making test content accessible, we are completists. It also means you keep your eyes on the big picture, advocating to colleagues and leadership alike for tools, authoring standards, and processes that build accessibility in from the start and for innovations that position College Board as an industry leader in accessible testing.

In Content Accessibility, everything you do is focused on one goal: ensuring College Board assessments are accessible so that all students, no matter their ability, can show what they know and can do.

In this role, you will:

Writer & reviewer (70%)

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Write accessible test content (including image descriptions), maintaininghigh standards of quality and care, for College Board assessments.

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Review and remediate test content to conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) prior to test packaging and publishing, ensuring all tests meet Section 504 and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements.

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Act as an authority on accessible-content standards, adjudicating edge cases when guidance is unclear

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Review and remediate test-adjacent content (e.g., research studies, scoring guidelines) to conform to WCAG, ensuring all publications meet Section 504 and ADA requirements.

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Conduct quality-control, accessibility, and usability reviews of tests and applications.

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Produce error-free deliverables such as reader scripts and braille transcription notes, as needed.

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Write and maintain image description guidelines, authoring standards and practices (e.g., for mode transformations), documentation, presentations, and tools (e.g., user personas).

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Conduct application testing and troubleshooting.

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Document processes and seek efficiency in all our work.

Advocate and leader (30%)

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Advocate for users of accessible technology at every opportunity.

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Synthesize accessibility research, web standards, and user-experience findings into clear evidence-based recommendations to improve tooling, processes, and authoring standards; present and advocate for those recommendations to program and organization leadership.

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Represent Content Accessibility, including the team’s aims, standards, constraints, and risk considerations, in planning conversations with teams across College Board , ensuring accessibility is built into all processes, tools, and assessments.

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Educate and mentor others