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title: "Digital Accessibility Specialist"
description: "Makes websites, apps and documents usable for people with disabilities by testing against WCAG standards and guiding teams on fixes."
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last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Digital Accessibility Specialist

**Category:** Computer and Mathematical · **SOC code:** 15-1253 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 15-1253.00

Makes websites, apps and documents usable for people with disabilities by testing against WCAG standards and guiding teams on fixes.

Also advertised as: Accessibility Specialist; Accessibility Analyst; Accessibility Engineer; Section 508 Specialist; Accessibility Tester.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $104,300 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $50.14/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $61,440 to $167,010, with the middle half between $80,310 and $133,180
- **Total US employment:** 186,740
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +5.7% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 10,700 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 9/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 186,740 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $61,440 |
| 25th | $80,310 |
| 50th (median) | $104,300 |
| 75th | $133,180 |
| 90th | $167,010 |
| Mean (average) | $111,490 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CA | $128,740 | $116,275 | 27,710 |
| WA | $128,480 | $120,060 | 7,970 |
| CO | $123,690 | $120,027 | 5,110 |
| MA | $122,210 | $115,557 | 6,640 |
| VA | $121,590 | $120,262 | 10,160 |
| NY | $121,240 | $112,341 | 10,460 |
| NJ | $119,470 | $109,802 | 6,550 |
| NM | $116,580 | $126,426 | 450 |
| MD | $111,100 | $105,851 | 5,880 |
| OR | $108,440 | $104,914 | 1,840 |
| NH | $107,100 | $102,818 | 770 |
| DE | $106,060 | $106,264 | 520 |
| IL | $104,910 | $104,954 | 6,530 |
| MT | $103,930 | $109,810 | 150 |
| DC | $103,340 | $94,030 | 760 |

32 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 47 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/digital-accessibility-specialist/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/digital-accessibility-specialist.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 187,600 in the 2025–2035 base year to 198,200 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 10,600 jobs, or +5.7%. Faster than average: 5.7% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 10,700 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's Degree | 50.0% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 26.5% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 8.8% |
| Some College Courses | 8.8% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 2.9% |
| Master's Degree | 2.9% |

## What the work involves

- Test websites and apps with screen readers and keyboard navigation
- Audit products against WCAG success criteria
- Write accessibility reports with clear remediation steps
- Review designs and code for accessibility before release
- Train designers, developers and content authors
- Check documents and PDFs for accessible structure
- Evaluate vendor software for Section 508 conformance

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Programming — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Quality Control Analysis — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operations Analysis — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Computers and Electronics — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Engineering and Technology — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Design — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Investigative (I), Conventional (C), Realistic (R).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| I — Investigative | 5.83 |
| C — Conventional | 5.67 |
| R — Realistic | 3.80 |
| S — Social | 2.69 |
| A — Artistic | 1.69 |
| E — Enterprising | 1.57 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISTJ | 86.3 |
| INTJ | 77.5 |
| ISFJ | 71.5 |
| ISTP | 71.3 |
| ESTJ | 65.1 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ. The bank also flags this occupation as introvert-friendly, meaning O\*NET work-context ratings put it low on public contact and performing for the public.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [QA Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/qa-analyst) — median $104,300
- [Software Developer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/software-developer) — median $135,980
- [Validation Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/validation-engineer) — median $102,440
- [Computer Systems Engineers/Architect](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-systems-engineers-architect) — median $116,580
- [Penetration Tester](https://nuecareer.com/careers/penetration-tester) — median $116,580
- [Computer Systems Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-systems-analyst) — median $105,850
- [Database Architect](https://nuecareer.com/careers/database-architect) — median $139,500
- [Computer Programmer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-programmer) — median $100,390
- [Computer Hardware Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-hardware-engineer) — median $161,740
- [Blockchain Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/blockchain-engineer) — median $116,580

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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