Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

user experience analysttoICT accessibility tester

A user experience analyst already meets 47% of what the ICT accessibility tester role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.

From user experience analyst
47%
Overlap1
To ICT accessibility tester
23 Skills carried over
11 Required, not held
59.7 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

47%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

59.7/ 100

1 Share of the ICT accessibility tester role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the user experience analyst profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A ICT accessibility tester role treats 10 of its required skills as things a user experience analyst already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • World Wide Web Consortium standards
  • application usability
  • assess users' interaction with ICT applications
  • behavioural science
  • conduct research interview
  • execute ICT user research activities

What stands in the way is 11 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 23 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A ICT accessibility tester role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a user experience analyst background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held test system accessibility for users with special needs information skills
  • already held use experience map working with computers
  • already held assess users' interaction with ICT applications management skills
  • already held execute ICT user research activities information skills
  • already held behavioural science social sciences, journalism and information
  • already held measure software usability constructing

All 23 carried skills, including the 10 the ICT accessibility tester role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 26 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 information and communication technologies (icts) 3 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held ICT accessibility standards required
  • required, not held levels of software testing required
  • required, not held screen reader required
  • optional, not held AJAX optional
  • optional, not held ICT debugging tools optional
  • optional, not held JavaScript optional
  • optional, not held PHP optional
  • optional, not held tools for ICT test automation optional
  • optional, not held web programming optional
02 working with computers 3 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held execute software tests required
  • required, not held replicate customer software issues required
  • required, not held use an application-specific interface required
  • optional, not held conduct ICT code review optional
  • optional, not held debug software optional
  • optional, not held use markup languages optional
  • optional, not held use scripting programming optional
03 information skills 3 required
  • required, not held report test findings required
  • required, not held test for behavioural patterns required
  • required, not held test for emotional patterns required
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held provide software testing documentation required
  • required, not held address problems critically required
  • optional, not held design user interface optional
  • optional, not held develop ICT test suite optional
  • optional, not held develop automated software tests optional
  • optional, not held give live presentation optional
05 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held manage schedule of tasks optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a ICT accessibility tester role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 23 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held World Wide Web Consortium standards knowledge
  • already held application usability knowledge
  • already held assess users' interaction with ICT applications skill
  • already held behavioural science knowledge
  • already held conduct research interview skill
  • already held execute ICT user research activities skill
  • already held human-computer interaction knowledge
  • already held measure software usability skill
  • already held test system accessibility for users with special needs skill
  • already held use experience map skill
  • already held Agile project management knowledge
  • already held ICT project management methodologies knowledge
  • already held LDAP knowledge
  • already held LINQ knowledge
  • already held MDX knowledge
  • already held N1QL knowledge
  • already held Process-based management knowledge
  • already held SPARQL knowledge
  • already held XQuery knowledge
  • already held cognitive psychology knowledge
  • already held lean project management knowledge
  • already held query languages knowledge
  • already held resource description framework query language knowledge
15 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held AJAX optional
  • optional, not held ICT debugging tools optional
  • optional, not held JavaScript optional
  • optional, not held PHP optional
  • optional, not held conduct ICT code review optional
  • optional, not held debug software optional
  • optional, not held design user interface optional
  • optional, not held develop ICT test suite optional
  • optional, not held develop automated software tests optional
  • optional, not held tools for ICT test automation optional
  • optional, not held use markup languages optional
  • optional, not held use scripting programming optional
  • optional, not held web programming optional
  • optional, not held give live presentation optional
  • optional, not held manage schedule of tasks optional
22 held skills the ICT accessibility tester role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role ICT system user requirements knowledge
  • not needed by the target role analyse business requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role apply systemic design thinking skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct qualitative research skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct quantitative research skill
  • not needed by the target role create prototype of user experience solutions skill
  • not needed by the target role create website wireframe skill
  • not needed by the target role define technical requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role forecast future ICT network needs skill
  • not needed by the target role identify ICT user needs skill
  • not needed by the target role identify technological needs skill
  • not needed by the target role interactive media knowledge
  • not needed by the target role manage localisation skill
  • not needed by the target role measure customer feedback skill
  • not needed by the target role online moderation techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform market research skill
  • not needed by the target role report analysis results skill
  • not needed by the target role software interaction design knowledge
  • not needed by the target role software metrics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use access control software skill
  • not needed by the target role visual presentation techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role web analytics knowledge
9 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held ICT accessibility standards required
  • required, not held levels of software testing required
  • required, not held screen reader required
  • optional, not held AJAX optional
  • optional, not held ICT debugging tools optional
  • optional, not held JavaScript optional
  • optional, not held PHP optional
  • optional, not held tools for ICT test automation optional
  • optional, not held web programming optional
Index

Other moves recorded from user experience analyst

Full index of moves from user experience analyst

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.