Digital Accessibility Expert (Remote)

Braintrust is hiring a Digital Accessibility Expert for a university engagement focused on governance, VPAT interpretation, remediation planning, and accessibility enablement across teams.

This is a remote 6-month engagement (with possible extension) centered on process improvement, stakeholder coaching, and operational accessibility support rather than net-new software development.

• Review VPATs and related accessibility documentation for enterprise systems.
• Validate automated/AI accessibility assessment outputs with expert analysis.
• Define alternative access plans and remediation roadmaps for non-compliant systems.
• Integrate accessibility checks into existing security and procurement processes.
• Triage accessibility barrier reports and coordinate remediation with owners.
• Track issue decisions and action plans in an auditable manner.
• Design and deliver accessibility training for faculty and staff.
• Create reusable guidance materials, templates, checklists, and FAQs.
• Support website, LMS, document, signage, and social media accessibility practices.
• Contribute to accessibility process design and large-scale remediation tooling strategy.
• Partner with change-management leaders to build long-term accessibility culture.

• Strong working knowledge of WCAG and digital accessibility standards.
• Hands-on experience assessing enterprise/web systems and digital documents.
• Experience interpreting VPATs and translating findings into risk/remediation guidance.
• Ability to balance compliance standards with practical operational constraints.
• Experience creating alternative access plans when full compliance is not immediately feasible.
• Proven experience delivering accessibility training to non-technical audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-department collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently in fast-moving, mandate-driven environments.
• Availability for at least 4 hours overlap with a US Central Time team.