Remote Blind Website Tester in Brookfield, Illinois

Accessibility Internship in Brookfield, Illinois

We are training blind people to test websites. You do not need to have done it before. No experience at all. If you use a screen reader in your everyday life, you already know the part that nobody can teach you.

The work is real client testing. These are not practice exercises. You take a task a customer really needs. From the first click to the last, you run it with your own screen reader. Then you record the point where it stops you. Our staff teach you the rest. That means what each WCAG rule is really asking for. It also means how to describe a problem so a developer understands it immediately.

You might wonder why we would hire someone who has never done this. The difficult part of this job was never the standard. It was always knowing how a page should behave when you cannot see it. You have been learning that for years without anyone calling it training. Rule numbers we can teach anybody. The training exists for that. It also leads to a full-time job.

What it looks like day to day. Pay starts from day one. Hours run from 10 to 20 a week. You work on-site in Chicago or remotely from anywhere else in Illinois. Six or seven people join us this time. Finish the training and it becomes a paid full-time role. That can be remote or on-site.

Your Internship Work

• Do real client tasks with your own screen reader and keyboard.
• Record the step that stopped you and what your screen reader said.
• Learn WCAG 2.1 Level AA from our staff one rule at a time.
• Describe each problem so a developer can see it. We teach you how.
• Test it again after they fix it and say whether the problem is gone or has only moved.

What You Need to Bring

• You use a screen reader in your own life every day.
• You are willing to be taught. You say so when something is not clear.
• You reply when we write. You come when you said you would.

Experience That Helps If You Have It

• You have used a website that you could not use at all. You wanted to fix it.
• You have used a screen reader on a phone as well as a computer.

Remote Training and Working Hours in Illinois

This can be your first accessibility role of any kind. Training happens remotely.

You will work remotely. You do need to live in Illinois. Our own staff teach you. They teach on live client sites, not practice pages. You learn what each WCAG rule asks for. You also learn how to describe a problem so a developer understands it immediately.

The training is paid at 10 to 20 hours a week. We are hiring six or seven people. Finish it and the role becomes full-time. That can be remote or on-site.

Why We Hire Interns for Testing

Too much of this industry has never employed the people it serves. Sighted consultants run a scanner and then report on an experience they have never had. We think that is wrong. Hiring you is how we change that. You learn the standard. It reads differently when you are the person it was written for. One day a client will rewrite a checkout because you told them where it stopped you. That is the part that makes this work worth doing.