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I know this is a job advert but it IS a unusual opportunity for working in OATS and Firefox Accessibility is very high profile OATS to boot. Also like OATSoft.org the role helps both users and developers. It is US or Canada based. Steve Lee "The position would include testing Firefox compatibility with Assistance Technologies, building/leading a team of community testers, helping to automate accessibility testing with various tools, assisting in the bug triage for accessibility issues and working with developers to evangelize accessibility at Mozilla. " Best, Bret Job Description: The Mozilla Corporation is looking for a full time QA engineer and accessibility evangelist to test and promote accessibility in its software. Possible job locations are the Mozilla's offices in Mountain View, California or in Toronto, Canada. The job will involve testing with a wide variety of 3rd party assistive technologies such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, onscreen keyboards and voice dictation software and on Windows, Linux and OS X. The candidate we are looking for will be technically strong and ultimately be able to help develop tests for both the wide variety of internet content and the expanding end-user capabilities being developed by the growing Mozilla open source community. The candidate should be passionate about accessibility and be able to effectively help the Mozilla community become more knowledgeable with respect to accessibility topics. Because of the community and evangelism portion of the job, the position is not entirely limited to QA. Occasional travel will be part of the job, such as to disability-related conferences like CSUN. In addition, the QA candidate will be part of the Mozilla Corporation QA team, and will be expected to take part in other QA activities not related to accessibility. Skills and experience * Experience with Assistive Technologies such as JAWS, Window-Eyes, Dragon, ZoomText, Supernova, LSR, Orca, GOK, Dasher, VoiceOver * Experience testing web applications, preferably browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera) or content oriented applications * Understanding of how browsers and mail clients work including major features and configuration settings * Understanding of the wide variety of content on the Internet * Strong understanding of common accessibility issues in graphical user interfaces and on the internet * Experience with software testing. Experience writing test plans and creating test procedures is a plus * Ability to write high quality bug reports along with analyzing bug reports, confirming bugs, and verify bug fixes * Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work with the community by interacting in IRC, email, documentation, face-to-face meetings, presentations, blog entries, test days, etc. -- Bret Reckard - Mozilla Corporation Sr. Staffing Executive [log in to unmask] - 650.903.0800 Ex. 259 www.GetFirefox.com