Emma Richens
Digital Accessibility Consultant at Barclays
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma Richens is a Digital Accessibility Consultant with a decade of hands-on experience bridging front-end development, UX design, and accessibility research for major UK organisations including Barclays and the BBC. She progressed from client-side developer to senior research engineer, combining practical coding skills with evidence-based accessibility solutions and policy-minded consulting. Emma is skilled at translating complex WCAG and assistive-technology needs into pragmatic, testable front-end implementations and developer guidance. Her background in design and long tenure in broadcast and financial sectors means she balances user-centred thinking with enterprise constraints. Outside work she brings a creative, collaborative sensibility—she’s a dancer and chorister—which informs her empathetic approach to inclusive digital experiences.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Surrey Institute of Art and DesignBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at The University of South Pacific, Fiji
Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
snapshot-testing10
axe10
wcag10
checker10
w3c10
testing10
act8
grid2
origami1
html1
italia1
creative-commons1
knockoutjs1
slack1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
EmmaJP/auto-wcag
Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches, 5 comments in 1 year
bbc/bbc-a11y
Jul 2015 - Nov 2019
BBC Accessibility Guidelines Checker
Contributions:28 commits, 9 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 years 3 months
checkera11ybbcguidelinesaxe
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