About us
Our content design and accessibility experience includes:
- creating guidance for the UK Public Sector accessibility requirements
- ensuring government websites met accessibility standards
- developing content accessibility strategy
- working on crisis content for major global events
Both of us are registered blind, which means we have lived experience of accessibility needs.
Things we enjoy doing include:
- running design workshops
- speaking at international design events
- training people in content design and accessibility
We have over 38 years' combined experience working in:
- national government
- telecoms
- travel
- broadcasting
- financial services
- charity
We are based in Ireland, and work with clients all over the world.
Marian Avery
Marian has over 16 years of experience working in digital content and accessibility. She spent most of her career at the UK’s Government Digital Service where she led content accessibility for GOV.UK, as well as training thousands of content and communications professionals.
She co-wrote guidance about accessibility requirements for the UK public sector, the GOV.UK accessibility statement, content design guidance, the GDS Service Manual and the Tech Code of Practice.
After leaving GDS in 2022, Marian spent two years contracting for the UK and Scottish governments, working on digital services, online guidance content as well as offline client interactions.
Kevin Mc Laughlin
Kevin has been working with digital content and accessibility for 22 years. Most of his content design experience was with the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) in London working on accessibility guidance for the public sector, and with the Scottish government as a contractor.
Before GDS he worked on large scale digital projects with organisations in the financial, telecoms, travel and broadcasting services.
He began his career working as a broadcast journalist in BBC network television and radio in London.