Accessibility hiring has a legal edge to it, and that shapes what employers read for: standards you can cite precisely, audits you have run, and remediation that actually shipped. A resume built on empathy statements will lose to one built on WCAG criteria and fixed defects.
Digital accessibility specialist with 7 years auditing and remediating web and mobile products against WCAG 2.2 AA. Took a public-sector portal of 340 templates from 190 open violations to full AA conformance in 11 months.
The example above is a working resume, not a screenshot. What follows is what changes when you write your own, and what technical reviewers in this field actually do with the page.
The first pass is a match check rather than an assessment. A technical reviewer holds the posting beside your resume and looks for whether the stack lines up; anything that has to be inferred from a job title usually is not. That is why the top third of the page has to carry the match instead of leaving it buried in a bullet halfway down.
Every bullet should survive the question "and then what happened". Latency, throughput, error rate, build time, cost, incident count — technical work generates numbers constantly, and a resume without them reads as work you watched rather than work you did. Name the technology inside the bullet rather than leaving it to the skills list, so the achievement and the tool arrive together.
Employers frequently set a practical audit task on a real page and ask you to report findings as you would to a development team. Expect to be asked to cite specific success criteria from memory, and to demonstrate screen reader use. Public sector, education and healthcare employers hire against legal obligation and move on documented compliance timelines. Product companies more often want someone who can also write the fix and argue it into a sprint.
Three lines at most: your discipline, the depth of your experience, and the single system or result you would most want to be asked about. Technical readers skim the summary looking for a reason to keep reading, and "passionate about technology" is not one. Name the stack in the summary if the posting names it, because the first keyword match happens here.
Developers and designers frequently move into this specialism rather than starting in it. Progression runs to accessibility lead, then to programme ownership across an organisation, or into consulting where legal exposure funds substantial engagements.
Technical postings are written by someone with a specific gap to fill. Read for the gap, not the wish list: the three or four things repeated across the responsibilities are what the role is really about. Mirror those in your own words and drop what does not apply. Our free ATS checker will show you what a parser extracts from your file before a recruiter sees it.
A summary naming your discipline and your depth, a skills block a reader can find without hunting, experience bullets that each end in something measurable, education, and links to anything public you have shipped. Certifications only where the role is explicitly tied to a platform.
The resume is the shortest part of the process in this field. It exists to earn the first call and to give a technical interviewer something concrete to open with, which is why a vague bullet is worse than no bullet — it becomes the question you answer badly.
This is one of the few technology disciplines where certification genuinely matters. IAAP's CPACC and WAS are the recognised credentials, and postings name them directly, particularly in government and enterprise. Deque University training is widely respected as preparation. A development or design background underneath the certification is what makes the combination valuable rather than merely compliant.
The stack, and how fast it can be found. A technical reviewer checks your languages, frameworks and platforms against the posting before reading a single achievement, which is why they belong in the summary and the skills block rather than only inside your job history.
Terms that commonly appear in postings for this role include: WCAG, accessibility audit, ARIA, screen reader, Section 508, assistive technology, remediation, inclusive design. Include a term only where you have genuinely done the work behind it, and write it the way the posting writes it rather than the way your last employer did.
One page under roughly ten years of experience, two pages beyond that. A two-page resume where every line earns its place beats a padded one-page resume, so cut duties before you cut measurable achievements.
Use the structure and the way each achievement is phrased, but write your own content. The names and employers here are fictional, and a resume describing work you did not do will not survive an interview.
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