Senior Accessibility Specialist

• As our Senior Accessibility Specialist, you’ll embed accessibility into our Design System, partnering with designers and engineers to ensure components, patterns and guidance meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
• This is a hands-on individual contributor role, with the opportunity to play a key role in shaping and strengthening our accessibility capability.

About Resmed

• As accessibility becomes increasingly important to how we design and deliver digital experiences at Resmed, we’re investing in growing our in-house expertise.
• Your work on reusable Design System components, patterns and guidance can influence multiple teams and digital experiences, while helping us explore how accessibility evolves alongside AI.
• Joining us is more than saying “yes” to making the world a healthier place.
• It’s discovering a career that’s challenging, supportive and inspiring.
• Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones.
• We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates.

Responsibilities

• You’ll identify barriers, guide practical solutions, and help teams confidently build accessible experiences.
• You’ll work alongside our design and development teams and external specialists, while also exploring how accessibility can be embedded into AI-assisted workflows and experiences.
• You’ll Do Define and embed accessibility standards across the Design System, ensuring components, patterns and guidance align with WCAG 2.2 AA.
• Review designs, prototypes and front-end code, using manual, keyboard, screen-reader and appropriate automated accessibility testing.
• Partner with designers and engineers to identify accessibility barriers early and recommend practical, technically achievable solutions.
• Define accessible component behaviours and guidance across HTML, ARIA, focus management, keyboard interaction, colour and contrast, forms, motion and assistive technologies.
• Establish accessibility acceptance criteria, testing practices and documentation within Design System workflows.
• Support product teams adopting the Design System with accessibility implementation challenges and help improve accessibility tools and processes.
• Embed accessibility into AI-assisted design and development, helping define guardrails for AI-enabled experiences and exploring where AI can enhance accessibility reviews.
• Advocate for inclusive design, build accessibility capability across teams, and translate evolving standards and technologies into practical guidance.

Requirements

• We’re looking for someone with: 5+ years’ professional experience in digital accessibility, ideally working directly with digital product, design and engineering teams.
• Strong working knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA and the ability to translate standards into practical design and development guidance.
• Experience conducting accessibility reviews and audits across designs, prototypes and implemented digital experiences.
• Hands-on experience testing with assistive technologies, including screen readers and keyboard-only navigation.
• Strong knowledge of accessible HTML, CSS and ARIA, and an understanding of how accessibility is implemented in modern web applications.
• Experience using automated accessibility testing tools and an understanding of where automated testing needs to be supplemented by manual and user testing.
• An interest in AI-assisted design and development, and the ability to think critically about how accessibility standards can be incorporated into emerging AI tools, workflows and experiences.
• The ability to work closely with UX/UI designers and engineers to identify issues and develop pragmatic solutions.
• Strong written communication skills, particularly the ability to turn technical accessibility requirements into clear component documentation and guidance.
• Confidence advocating for accessibility, constructively challenging decisions where necessary and helping others understand the customer impact behind accessibility requirements.
• A self-directed approach and the ability to prioritise effectively when you’re the accessibility specialist supporting a small team with competing demands.
• Curiosity, pragmatism and a collaborative mindset.
• You’ll need to influence through expertise and partnership rather than simply policing compliance.
• A genuine interest in inclusive design and creating digital experiences that can be used by as many people as possible.

Preferred

• Skills Previous experience working with Design Systems or shared component libraries would be a significant advantage, particularly experience defining accessible component behaviour, testing component libraries, or creating reusable accessibility guidance.
• Experience in healthcare, regulated environments, mobile accessibility, accessibility user research, or applying accessibility principles to AI-enabled products and workflows would also be valuable, but isn’t essential.
• Why Join Resmed This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping and strengthening accessibility capability at Resmed.

Preferred

If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now! We commit to respond to every applicant.