Usman Afzal
Accessibility Consultant at Hassell Inclusion
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolUsman Afzal is an Accessibility Consultant and experienced front-end specialist based in London, with over a decade delivering accessible, performant web experiences across public and private sectors. He blends hands-on skills in HTML/CSS/JavaScript, React, TypeScript and WCAG auditing with leadership roles that shaped developer workflows, CI/CD and platform governance. At Hassell Inclusion he trains developers in inclusive practices, having previously led front-end teams at the Parliamentary Digital Service and driven accessibility work at Publicis Sapient. Usman favors minimalist, user-centred solutions and pragmatic tooling like Storybook and OpenAPI to make interfaces more predictable and testable. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical documentation, accessibility audits and stakeholder-facing presentations that translate compliance into better UX. He pairs formal training in advanced web authoring and JavaScript with a long track record of mentoring and embedding accessibility into delivery pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Animation & Design with Flash & ActionScript, Web Animation & Design with Flash & ActionScript at City St George’s, University of London
English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi
Github Skills (30)
parliament10
component-based9
pattern9
duolingo9
designer9
mailchimp8
varnish7
nodejs6
dynamodb6
fundamentals6
shopify6
react5
static-assets5
html-email5
api5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
UsmanAfzal/parliament.uk-utilities
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:76 pushes in 8 months
UsmanAfzal/parliament.uk-lists
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:59 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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