Beverley Newing
Head Of Accessibility at Ministry of Justice UK
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBeverley Newing is Head of Accessibility at the UK Ministry of Justice with a decade of hands-on front-end and accessibility experience, having founded and now leading an eight-person Digital Accessibility team to embed WCAG-compliant practices across the organisation. She progressed from front-end developer roles—building accessible WordPress plugins, Gutenberg blocks and training programs—into strategic accessibility leadership, procuring audits and advising multidisciplinary teams. A committed diversity advocate, Beverley set up and ran codebar Oxford, volunteered with Three Rings CIC, and taught with Code First: Girls to broaden tech access. She combines practical engineering chops with policy and people leadership, and outside work sews, fusses dogs and rides motorbikes.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Barton Court Grammar SchoolEnglish and German Literature Humanities, English and German Literature Humanities at University of Warwick
English, intermediate german
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (81)
alex10
displays10
google-tag-manager10
eye-tracking10
reservation-system10
als10
wordpress9
aac9
gdpr9
sketchup9
cookie-consent9
plugin9
accessibility9
wordpress-plugin9
react9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BNewing/geese-games
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
A React learning project - a light-hearted website with info and a quiz on different types of geese
Contributions:10 PRs, 133 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 1 month
learning-projectreactlightcssjavascript
ministryofjustice/record-a-goose-exercise
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
The no-answers version of the accessibility exercise, 'Record a goose sighting'
Contributions:1 review, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years
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