2024
Nexer Digital - Blog post; "Empowering Accessibility with AI: 5 Real-World Use Cases"
Umbraco MVP 2022 (x5)
Microsoft Horizon - Featured in; "Nexer enhances colleague experience with Accessibility Horizon 1 - Adopt video"
Siteimprove webinar (Rethinking digital accessibility: From compliance to cornerstone) - Speaker; "Beyond Compliance: Creating Truly Inclusive Digital Experiences"
NHS Accessibility Launch event - Speaker; "What's new in 2.2: Explaining the updates to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines"
2023
TechShare Pro 2023 - Attendance for my first time at AbilityNet's Techshare Pro event
Nexer Group Gothenburg - Speaker; "Beyond Compliance: Creating Truly Inclusive Digital Experiences"
Codegarden 2023 - Speaker; "Fix the Six: A personal and practical explanation of web accessibility"
Umbraco MVP 2022 (x4)
Promoted to Accessibility Team Lead for Nexer Digital
Signed the Overlay Fact Sheet; lucky #767
Nexer WoW Tour - Speaker; "Nexer Digital Case Study for Accessibility"
UMBRAAD 2023 (Umbraco Accessibility Awareness Day) - Speaker; "Building better editor experiences: Empowering our editors to make accessible content"
UK Tech News - Featured in; "Umbraco Accessibility Awareness Day conference aims to make websites user-friendly for all"
IT Supply Chain - Featured in; "Umbraco Accessibility Awareness Day conference aims to make websites user-friendly for all"
Nexer & Bupa Accessibility event - Speaker; "What's new in 2.2: Explaining the updates to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines"
Umbraco Spark - Speaker; "Building better editor experiences: Empowering our editors to make accessible content"
UmbraCoffee #267 - A11y Awareness; spoke about the upcoming accessibility Umbraco event
Nexer Digital - Blog post; "The 2023 WebAim Million Report Shows Web Accessibility Still Has A Long Way To Go"
2022
Umbraco uProfile March 2022: Danny Lancaster
Umbraco MVP 2022 (x3)
Sigma Tomorrow Pilot - Representation role for accessibility and inclusive design for the wider Sigma group
Code Garden 2022 - Attended my first Code Garden & spoke with some of the accessibility community team on stage
UmbraCoffee Live at Code Garden 2022 - attendee as first timer
Wrote my first HTML project
Manchester Digital Member conference 2022 - Speaker; "Fix the Six: A personal and practical explanation of web accessibility" - See this excellent write up from Roger Zorlu
Accessibility training for AutoTrader and Bupa
Umbraco Community Days - Attended the Umbraco Community Teams visit at Umbraco HQ as part of the Umbraco Accessibility team
Cam Creative - Speaker; "Fix the Six: A personal and practical explanation of web accessibility"
Promoted to Accessibility Lead for Nexer Digital
Accessibility at Nexer Video - Our team talks about the work we do around accessibility, and why it matters to them.
Umbraco Together - Speaker; "Building better editor experiences: Empowering our editors to make accessible content"
Umbraco DK Festival - Speaker; "Fix the Six: A personal and practical explanation of web accessibility"
24DaysInUmbraco - Blog post; "Empowering our authors and clients through Umbraco: A call to action"
Started my website/blog
2021
Umbraco MVP 2021 (x2)
Sigma Tomorrow Pilot - Representation role for accessibility and inclusive design for the wider Sigma group
UMBRAAD 2021 (Umbraco Accessibility Awareness Day) - Speaker; "A11y and Digital Illusions"
Shopify - Contributed to blog post; "Mobile Accessibility: How to build apps that work for all users"
Helped create and launch the first Umbraco accessibility training course for their training library
2020
Sigma Tomorrow Pilot - Representation role for accessibility and inclusive design for the wider Sigma group
Joined the We4Author accessibility cluster representing Umbraco among many other CMS venders
NHS Digital Accessibility lab - Help set up and train NHS Digital staff on the in-house accessibility lab
ORCHA Webinar - Speaker; "Mobile accessibility barriers: Practical ways to test your products and services"
ORCHA Webinar promotional content for making health products and services more inclusive.
Nexer Digital - Blog post; "How to create accessibility statements"
Sigma Christmas Calendar - Presented a short awareness video with my excellent colleague Molly Watt using sign language
2019
Performed the first accessibility audit on Umbraco CMS version 8.1
Co-started the Umbraco Accessibility team
UmbraCoffee #078 - Let's make an ARIA to talk about Web Accessibility! - Guest and accessibility demo for UmbraCoffee
Sigma Tomorrow Pilot - Representation role for accessibility and inclusive design for the wider Sigma group
Umbraco UK Festival 2019 - Speaker; "How to save a life in 2 hours: Accessibility testing within a short timeframe"
How To Save A Life In 2 Hours promotional content with Danny Lancaster and Ross Jamieson for Umbraco UK Festival.
Booking.com Innovation week - Speaker; "How to save a life in 2 hours: Accessibility testing within a short timeframe"