Job Description:

Summer 2023 Internship - Accessibility

Application Deadline: February 24, 2023

We encourage you to submit your application as soon as you can as internship applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Role:

We are looking for an Accessibility Intern to help us integrate our accessibility practice into the UX process from concept to delivery across our Consumer and B2B portfolios, which include The Wall Street Journal, the Barron’s Group, Factiva, Risk & Compliance and Investors Business Daily.

You are committed to accessible and inclusive design, and are keen to learn how to integrate accessibility holistically within our digital projects. You will help us define best practices and guidelines, partner with product development and research teams to understand the needs of our users with disabilities and collaborate with designers and developers to create scalable and accessible solutions.

You will be part of an interesting and rewarding internship experience across many teams and products within Dow Jones.

This role is hybrid, based in our Princeton, NJ or New York City office.

You Will:

• Contribute to initiatives across Dow Jones to inform and educate on the importance of and best practices for digital accessibility

• Create and maintain documentation concerning Dow Jones’ accessibility standards and best practices

• Create and maintain digital compliance documentation including Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs)

• Help us write accessibility use cases and detailed requirements

You Have:

• Some understanding of WCAG and ARIA guidelines

• An interest to learn more about defining accessibility requirements and testing, and conducting audits and writing VPATs

• Interest or experience conducting or helping to design user research and testing focusing on accessibility issues

• Great communication skills

• Good attention to detail and organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines

• Completed at least 2 years of your undergraduate degree or are pursuing a graduate degree

Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line.

Business Area: TECHNOLOGY - DATA SET/AD TECH

Job Category: Internships Group

Union Status:

Pay Range: $21 - $21

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

If you are a current employee at Dow Jones, do not apply here. Please go to the Career section on your Workday homepage and view "Find Jobs - Dow Jones." Thank you.

Req ID: 36378

Starting out as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has become a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including our flagship Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News and other great products. World-class journalism lies at the core of our growing news-derived data capabilities, driven by innovation in AI and machine learning. We understand that the better the provenance of information, the greater the opportunity.