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Hire experts who make websites, applications and digital services usable with keyboards, screen readers and other assistive technologies. They work with WCAG, ARIA, semantic HTML and accessibility testing, while FRATCH matches you quickly with precise, vetted and available freelancers.

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Nikita V.

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Salesforce Technical Architect

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Nikita V.

Last position:

Salesforce Technical Architect at Fennia

  • Designed and engineered a shared web component library for a customer portal serving 360,000+ private users and integrated the LWC framework with Storybook via Rollup.
  • Resolved WCAG AA compliance issues to support strict accessibility requirements.
  • Integrated legacy systems into a new portal via REST API to support existing products.
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Mohamad K.

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Senior Backend Developer

Zürich
Mohamad K.

Last position:

Senior Backend Developer at Standing on Giants

  • Led architecture and end-to-end engineering delivery for community-driven SaaS platforms serving 2M+ monthly active users.
  • Architected and led the migration of a monolithic Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL database and LangChain with codebase to an event-driven microservices architecture on AWS EKS, sustaining 10x traffic growth from ~150 RPS to 1,500+ RPS with zero re-architecture cycles.
  • Defined and enforced engineering standards across services including API contracts, observability baselines, and deployment topology, reducing production incidents by 55% and MTTR from 2 hours to under 25 minutes within 9 months.
  • Redesigned the caching and query layer using multi-tier Redis caching and database indexing/partitioning, cutting p95 API latency from 850ms to 180ms (78% reduction) and database CPU load by 45%.
  • Built CI/CD platform on GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS) with blue-green and canary rollouts, increasing deployment frequency from ~2/month to 8-12/day and reducing lead time from 10 days to under 6 hours.
  • Implemented contract testing, automated load testing, and observability SLOs using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, raising platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95% (10x reduction in error budget burn).
  • Led and grew a cross-functional team of 8 engineers across backend, frontend, and DevOps, scaling headcount from 4 to 8 with 85% retention; owned hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
  • Partnered with Product, Design, and Client Success leadership as primary technical decision-maker; translated business goals into technical roadmaps and drove build-vs-buy decisions on authentication, search, and AI tooling.
  • Introduced AI-assisted development workflows including automated code review and a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant using Graph (GraphRAG, Neo4J), increasing sprint throughput by 30% across two quarters.
  • Owned incident command and production support rotation; established runbooks, postmortem culture, and on-call SLOs, reducing weekend paging incidents by 70%.
  • Developed and optimized Algorithms using python libraries like Numpy and Pandas.
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Christoph P.

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Senior Frontend Developer & UX Engineer

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Christoph P.

Last position:

ICT DevSecOps Engineer at Abraxas Informatik AG

Reduced time-to-market by optimizing CI/CD pipelines. Employees without customer VM access can now deploy. Increased system stability and performance and reduced maintenance effort through systematic database cleanup. Restricted rights for Flyway migrations versus service users. Improved transparency and decision-making basis with enhanced Grafana dashboards for response times, optimized logging, and standardization with Loki. Reduced security risks by consistently applying security best practices such as removing the public schema in PostgreSQL, individual service user permissions, and Docker security context. Facilitated knowledge transfer and sustainable process improvements by creating process diagrams and implementing various concepts. Conducted code reviews across multiple repositories.

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Stefan W.

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Senior UX & Product Designer Contract · Interim · Freelance

Zürich
Stefan W.

Last position:

UX/UI Design Lead at Atupri

  • Digital health insurance experience
  • UX concept development, user journeys, prototyping, visual design, and optimization of digital services for customer-focused insurance experiences.
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Max R.

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ICT Solution Architect Senior

Bern
Max R.

Last position:

ICT Solution Architect Senior at ewb, Energy, Water

  • Questioning and discussion of technical requirements and coordination with the team
  • Contributing to objectives of the Digital Transformation Services unit and implementation of objectives
  • Analyzing, specifying, updating and delivering architecture models to implement digital solutions in line with business, data infrastructure and requirements
  • Selecting suitable technical options for application design considering interoperability, reversibility, scalability, usability, accessibility and security and optimizing cost/quality ratio
  • Creating and maintaining concept documents, architecture models and other technical documentation
  • Reviewing services to be provided and other documents for solution development
  • Collaborating with IT enterprise architect, business analyst, project manager, developers, testers and process owner in design and documentation of technical specifications for new and further developments
  • Communicating and supporting concepts to relevant stakeholders
  • Participating in enterprise architecture activities and ensuring compliance with principles, standards and guidelines
  • Monitoring compliance with defined design at application, solution and enterprise level
  • Developing and testing existing and new solutions as required
  • Supporting and guiding development teams in implementation of new projects or maintenance of existing products, assuming product manager role if required
  • Establishing and ensuring best practice in implementation, documentation, testing and packaging for distribution
  • Contributing to handling of reported incidents and requests assigned to third level support and follow-up actions as required
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Rebekka Z.

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Video Lecturer - Experience Psychology

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Rebekka Z.

Last position:

UX Design Lecturer at cimdata Bildungsakademie GmbH

  • Teach UX principles and methods
  • Guide students in conducting user research and creating user-centered designs
  • Provide hands-on exercises and real-world projects to build student portfolios
  • Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices
  • Course length: 4 weeks, class size: 12-20 students
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Oliver S.

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Senior UX/UI Designer and Consultant

Zürich
Oliver S.

Last position:

Senior UX/UI Designer and Consultant at Local Search Directories AG, Swisscom

  • Freelance mandate as senior UX/UI designer and consultant
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Beat Z.

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SAP Test Manager

Zürich
Beat Z.

Last position:

SAP Test Manager at E.ON Grid Solutions GmbH

  • Responsible for IT integration test and user acceptance test for SAP S/4 Hana and BDO BO Customer Financials Management
  • Led the test team (business testers and IT testers)
  • Resource planning and control within the test team
  • Created test concepts and test plans
  • Performed test risk analysis
  • Coordinated test execution and defect tracking
  • Ensured test progress
  • Generated and visualized reports
  • Summarized test reports and reported to management
  • Prepared and conducted user acceptance tests
  • Managed SIGMA and JIRA/Confluence at project level
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Felix S.

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Senior iOS Developer

Sisikon
Felix S.

Last position:

Senior iOS Developer at Commerzbank AG

  • The comdirect app for iOS offers an intuitive and user-friendly mobile banking app that allows users to manage their banking efficiently and securely.
  • Central features: bank transfers, portfolio analysis, personalized financial manager to facilitate daily banking and financial planning.
  • Users: over 1 million.
  • Written in native Swift using UIKit and SwiftUI.
  • App-wide MVVM and Coordinator design pattern.
  • Partial reactive programming using Apple’s Combine framework or vendor RxSwift.
  • API integrations and data structures with JSON.
  • Documented clean code.
  • Continuous integration with Git and Jenkins.
  • High unit test coverage with XCTest.
  • Agile project setup according to Scrum.
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Ned O.

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Tech Lead

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Ned O.

Last position:

Tech Lead at R3leaf GmbH

  • Autonomously drafted architecture and delivered production code at startup pace
  • Wrangled diverse geospatial formats (NETCDF, GeoTIFF, GML) into unified standards and built scalable climate data visualisations from hundreds of GBs of geodata in a production web app
  • Mentored developers, facilitated AI skill sharing, and contributed to competitive strategy with C-Level leadership
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Lluis N.

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Senior Angular Developer

Bern
Lluis N.

Last position:

Federal Office for IT

  • Developed an event tool for the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs ([link]
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Kevin H.

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Senior Frontend Engineer (freelance)

Küssnacht
Kevin H.

Last position:

Senior Frontend Engineer (freelance) at Ricardo

  • Helping my former employer to deliver new search related features faster

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Statistics of experts using Web Accessibility

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

20 years

Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland have 20 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

1.8 years

Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland stay in a single position for 1.8 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

14

Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland have completed 14 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail

Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland are most in demand in Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Retail.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Bachelor's degree or higher

73%

73% of Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

36%

36% of Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland hold at least a Master's degree.

Certifications per freelancer

2

Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland hold 2 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, Spanish

Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland most often speak German, English, and Spanish.

Speak two or more languages

92%

92% of Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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One of the Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland charges less than €480 per day.
4 of the Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland charge between €640 and €800 per day.
4 of the Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland charge between €800 and €960 per day.
2 of the Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland charge between €960 and €1120 per day.
2 of the Web Accessibility experts in Switzerland charge €1120 or more per day.
<€480 €640-​800 €800-​960 €960-​1120 €1120+

The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Switzerland are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.

Average rates of experts in Switzerland using Web Accessibility

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 827 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 800 €

The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.

Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

Web Accessibility experts industry focus

See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

  • Information Technology (100%)
  • Banking and Finance (69%)
  • Retail (62%)
  • Professional Services (54%)
  • Healthcare (46%)
  • Insurance (38%)
  • Transportation (38%)
  • Media and Entertainment (38%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

What Web Accessibility covers

Web Accessibility makes digital content and services usable by people with disabilities. It covers perception, operation, understanding and technical compatibility across websites, mobile applications, online forms and customer portals. The work combines user needs with standards such as WCAG and practical browser support.

Where it is used

Companies apply accessibility expertise wherever customers, employees or citizens interact with digital products. Typical deliverables include:

  • Accessible navigation, headings, forms and error messages
  • Keyboard and screen-reader support for web applications
  • Accessible design systems and reusable components
  • Audits, remediation plans and conformance reviews
  • Accessible PDFs, documents and multimedia content

Ecosystem and tooling

Strong specialists understand semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript and responsive interaction patterns. They use ARIA carefully, alongside browser inspection tools, automated scanners and manual testing with screen readers such as NVDA, JAWS or VoiceOver. Design tools, component libraries and content management systems also need accessibility checks throughout delivery.

When companies need specialists

Freelance expertise is useful when accessibility is being added to an existing product, validated before launch or embedded into a new delivery process. Common signals include:

  • Repeated accessibility defects across shared components
  • Forms or workflows that fail keyboard or assistive technology testing
  • A redesign that needs accessible interaction patterns
  • Internal teams that need audits, training or remediation guidance

What quality looks like

The best professionals turn standards into clear, testable product decisions. They combine automated checks with manual keyboard use, screen-reader journeys, zoom testing and review by people with different access needs. They explain the impact of each issue, propose practical fixes and verify that changes remain accessible in real user flows.

Collaboration in Switzerland

Accessibility work can be delivered remotely, on site or through a mixed approach. Remote collaboration works well for audits, code reviews, documentation and workshops, while on-site sessions can help align product, design and content teams. In Switzerland, clarify the required working languages and the standards, procurement rules or sector expectations relevant to your service.

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Frequently asked questions

The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Web Accessibility.

Web Accessibility is used to make websites, applications and digital services usable by people with different disabilities and assistive technologies. It covers structure, content, interaction, media, forms and the way products work with keyboards and screen readers.

WCAG is the main set of international guidelines used to evaluate digital accessibility. The term a11y is a shortened form of accessibility, while Web Accessibility describes the broader practice of applying those principles in design, content, code and testing.

Web Accessibility cannot be achieved through testing alone. Testing reveals barriers, but specialists also need to improve semantic structure, interaction patterns, content, visual contrast and component behavior so that accessibility is built into the product.

ARIA knowledge is valuable, but it should be combined with semantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive design and user-experience practice. Useful adjacent skills also include screen-reader testing, accessible content, design systems, quality assurance and product documentation.

Web Accessibility projects vary in scope, so the right level of experience depends on the product, technology stack and starting condition. An audit may need focused assessment skills, while a complex remediation programme calls for someone who can influence design systems, engineering workflows and governance.

Web Accessibility work is often well suited to remote collaboration because audits, reviews, testing and workshops can be handled online. For Swiss companies, agree on working languages, meeting arrangements and any need for on-site discovery or team training before the engagement begins.

Accessibility reviews should combine automated scans with manual keyboard, focus, zoom and screen-reader testing. A useful report explains the affected users, reproducible steps, severity, relevant WCAG guidance and a practical path to verify each fix.

Web Accessibility proposals should state the product areas covered, testing methods, expected access to environments and the format of the findings. Strong proposals also describe how the specialist will collaborate with design and technical teams, prioritize remediation and support verification after changes.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Web Accessibility in their recent projects is 103 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 827 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Web Accessibility in their recent projects, 73% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 36% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Web Accessibility in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Web Accessibility in their recent projects are German (100%), English (92%), and Spanish (31%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Web Accessibility in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (69%), and Retail (62%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Web Accessibility in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (46%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Web Accessibility

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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Zurich Geneva Basel Bern

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