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Zakhar Kravchuk

Los Angeles,USA

Summary

Results-driven Digital Accessibility Consultant with extensive experience at Level Access, Inc., enhancing WCAG compliance and optimizing accessibility testing processes. Proven ability in data analysis and client communication, achieving a 20% increase in team efficiency while ensuring long-term usability and compliance across digital platforms.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Digital Accessibility Consultant

Level Access, Inc.
Los Angeles, USA
11.2023 - Current
  • Assisted top banking clients while conducting comprehensive evaluations of digital applications and interfaces, focusing on WCAG compliance
  • Led educational initiatives to promote accessibility best practices among clients and development teams
  • Validated accessibility implementations to ensure long-term compliance and usability
  • Implemented my understanding of Global Accessibility laws and standards such as WCAG 2.1 & 2.2 thorough working knowledge of making web content and applications compliant with both Level A and AA standards
  • Participated and initiated team meetings regularly and was actively involved in discussions to improve the testing quality through better strategies and testing approaches
  • Assisted in accessibility project planning, establishing and administering accessibility testing programs, and remediating the issues to ensure compliance with W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
  • Developed and maintained standard templates for testing applications for WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 compliance
  • Performed Design Assessments to assist with better user experience for both websites and mobile applications
  • Experience in both Automated and Manual testing using screen readers like NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access), Voice-Over for IOS devices, Talkback for Android devices, JAWS, Screen Magnifiers for both web and mobile devices, etc
  • Generated results using Automated tools like ATTEST, aXe, and AMP (Accessibility Management Platform tool developed by Level Access)
  • Solved accessibility issues related to browser in-consistency like keyboard traps, and visible focus on the Ul Components
  • Followed WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 for Design Patterns and Widgets, Landmark Regions, Developing Keyboard Interface, Grid and Table Properties, and Roles that automatically hide semantics by making their descendants presentational
  • Assisted with accessibility issues for custom components involving EASE Ul Components like date-picker, radio buttons, complex tables, select menu, etc
  • Hands-on knowledge and experience with the new Success Criteria of WCAG 2.2 Guidelines such as Focus Not Obscured, Focus Appearance, Dragging Movements, Target Size, Consistent Help, Redundant Entry, Accessible Authentication
  • Production monitoring for both Mobile and Web Platforms like validating all the Confidential native apps and core Confidential

Digital Accessibility Engineer

Capital One Financial Corp.
Richmond, USA
07.2019 - 11.2023
  • Developed a data reporting process that reduced the time of high-level data overview delivery from 4 weeks to 1 day
  • Constructed a pipeline for efficient communication and problem resolution between the accessibility team and a magnitude of clients' product owners, which helped to increase efficiency by 20%
  • Contributed to the product development and design of a newly acquired digital accessibility automation startup
  • Assured the highest data quality during the export and import of millions of rows of data for monthly accessibility reports utilizing CSV, Excel, MS SQL, and MySQL
  • Created and executed queries, indexes, MS SQL, and MySQL scripts and procedures to maintain reliable and efficient data infrastructure
  • Reviewed and tested the design for front-end platforms to conform with digital accessibility standards
  • Communicated with product owners on the progress and implementation of the code fixes
  • Validated and reported on the clients' HTML, CSS, JavaScript, typescript, Angular, and other program codes regarding the issues that violate digital accessibility standards
  • Worked with automation tools such as Attest and WorldSpace to analyze and identify digitally inaccessible code
  • Educated designers, developers, and product owners on how to successfully develop a digitally accessible web-based platform
  • Used the functionalities for writing code in HTML5, CSS, AngularJS, JavaScript, JQUERY, Ajax, JSON, and Bootstrap with MySQL database as the backend
  • Implemented WCAG 2.1 as a rulebook and guide for digital accessibility standards

Freelance Web Developer

Upwork.com
Remote, USA
08.2018 - 07.2019
  • Developed various websites using HTML5/CSS3, PHP, Java, MySQL, and Javascript, including sites for startup companies, small businesses, and individuals
  • Created and maintained clean, professional, and easy-to-navigate websites from design concept to a completed and polished functional product
  • Implemented single-page applications for storing User information and personal information pages
  • Designed CSS-based page layouts that are cross-browser compatible and standards-compliant
  • Worked with customers on-site and remotely to gather requirements, and designed and implemented custom development solutions
  • Environment: HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, LESS, Stylus, Bootstrap, jQuery, Angularjs, Angular, NodeJS, Java, Spring boot, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Selenium, Shopify, WordPress, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Java
  • Established hosting for each website and completed go-live process by uploading sites to host account.
  • Kept detailed documentation on test plans, procedures and end results.
  • Validated code for proper structuring, security and compatibility with different browsers, devices or operating systems.
  • Built layouts according to customer parameters using HTML5 and CSS3.

User Experience Engineer

Augeo Affinity Marketing Inc (Now Figg)
Lisle, USA
12.2018 - 05.2019
  • Interacted and coordinated with team members to develop detailed software requirements to drive the consolidated software applications' design, implementation, and testing
  • Created optimized graphic websites and application interfaces with HTML, CSS, and JQuery UI framework
  • Integrated Bootstrap to implement responsive web design for tablet and mobile devices, along with CSS3 media queries and event-based JavaScript for custom breakpoints and custom UI components
  • Applied jQuery Datatables along with JSP features to create tables that can sort/paginate/hide or show columns/expand/header sticks etc
  • Designed dynamic client-side JavaScript codes and jQuery to build web forms, page navigation, and form validation
  • Utilized DevOps tools suite: AWS, Jenkins, Git Bash, JIRA, Confluence, and Nexus Repository Management
  • Performed testing like JUnit, JMeter, and Web service testing to ensure code quality
  • PostgreSQL is a back-end tool for databases with data used to drive customizable web applications
  • Responsible for QA and UAT code deployment and monitoring and overseeing multiple developments and product releases
  • Environment: Java 8, J2EE, Servlets, Spring 4
  • X, Spring MVC, IOC, Eclipse, Angular-JS, Bootstrap, CSS3, HTML5, JUnit, Apache Tomcat, SOAP, JSP, PostgreSQL, Micro Services (Spring Boot), Spring Batch GIT, JIRA, Jenkins, REST

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

University At Buffalo, The State University of New York
Buffalo, NY
05.2018

Skills

  • WCAG compliance
  • Accessibility testing
  • Automated testing
  • Manual testing
  • Data analysis
  • HTML and CSS
  • Project management
  • Client communication
  • Problem solving
  • Data analytics
  • Budget management
  • Risk assessment
  • Process optimization

Certification

  • Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) IAAP certification
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), https://bcert.me/sclfrmhx
  • Semantic Structure and Navigation, Deque Systems, Inc, 07/01/19
  • Accessibility Fundamentals - Disabilities, Guidelines, and Laws, Deque Systems, Inc, 07/01/19

Languages

Ukrainian
Native/ Bilingual
Russian
Native/ Bilingual
Spanish
Limited
French
Elementary
Polish
Limited

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Digital Accessibility Consultant

Level Access, Inc.
11.2023 - Current

Digital Accessibility Engineer

Capital One Financial Corp.
07.2019 - 11.2023

User Experience Engineer

Augeo Affinity Marketing Inc (Now Figg)
12.2018 - 05.2019

Freelance Web Developer

Upwork.com
08.2018 - 07.2019

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

University At Buffalo, The State University of New York

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