Meet the Digital Accessibility team.
The Digital Accessibility team is led by Ben Watson. They are responsible for ensuring that UCL's digital systems and services are as accessible as possible by design. They develop digital accessibility initiatives to ensure compliance with accessibility regulations and provide assistive technology support to students and staff to help everyone get the maximum benefit from the information sources we provide.
Ben Watson Head of Digital Accessibility | Ben, a former law librarian and qualified teacher, has a passion for inclusive design that has led him into researching and implementing approaches to inclusive information and technology provision for education. Ben has experience of working with all UK education sectors (primary, secondary, further and higher education) and many years' experience of working to improve both the physical and digital accessibility of educational organisations. | |
Matt Pateman Digital Accessibility Support Officer | Matt joined UCL in August 2022 and manages the Digital Accessibility Hub on the Bloomsbury campus. Matt has over 20 years’ experience working with Partially Sighted, Blind and Dyslexic users within Corporate and Education sectors. | |
Reena Babu Digital Accessibility Technologist | Reena joined UCL in August 2017. She provides support to disabled students and staff in assistive technology, both hardware and software, focus on one to one IT training and make recommendations on ergonomic equipment to assist in their working environment.
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Georgia Rose Mann Digital Accessibility Coordinator | Georgia joined UCL in January 2023 and in her role she coordinates the team’s projects, communications and events to support the wider Digital Accessibility strategy. She previously worked at an accessibility consultancy specializing in accessible social media and communications, as well as other higher education institutions.
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James Prime Digital Accessibility Assistant | James joined UCL as Digital Accessibility Assistant in February 2023. He previously completed his MSci in Chemistry, also at UCL, and now takes particular interest in data and technology. James’ focus is primarily on accessibility data analysis, but also includes captioning, alternative formats for printed material, auditing and remediation, and anything else that counts as both technical and supportive. |