Who We Are

Clive Loseby

Founder, TED Speaker

Clive Loseby is the founder of Access by Design and a recognised authority on digital accessibility. He works with organisations to ensure their websites and digital services are usable by everyone, including people with disabilities.

His TED Talk on website accessibility has been viewed by over 1 million people worldwide and explains in simple terms how inaccessible digital design excludes customers without organisations realising it.

Pollyana Miranda

Head of Design

Polly is a talented and highly-skilled web designer who has worked for Access by Design since 2009. She graduated from Chichester University with a BA Hons in IT Management for Business. Polly combines programming and design skills and ensures that every website or e-commerce Access by Design produces meets stringent criteria before launch. She believes in staying lean and testing regularly, with extensive experience in PHP and WordPress. She lived in the UK for 12 years, but currently resides in Brazil.

Sonia Jennings

Account Manager

Sonia is a highly experienced account manager who has worked for Access by Design since 2016. After studying Business Studies at Oxford Brookes University, she obtained a Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing at the University of the West of England, Bristol, as well the CAM Diploma and the Diploma of the Institute of Marketing. She has worked for a number of London agencies on a wide variety of projects before joining Access by Design.

Iona Bateman

Iona was previously a photographer of many of the world’s biggest rock bands until a brain injury left her without the use of one hand and very limited use of her other hand. She uses Dictation Software to navigate websites. She currently works at the Chartered Institute of Physiotherapy and is active in promoting the wider cause of accessibility with every opportunity.

Sara Ahmad

Sara obtained a Degree in Engineering at Southampton University. She is also neurodivergent, having severe ADHD and Dyspraxia. This allows her to bring some remarkable insights to her website audits and to check website accessibility.

Krista Giannak

Krista is a public relations professional, speaker, writer and blind skier. She has a BA (Double Major) in Arts and Psychology from Dowling College). She is a JAWS Power User, using the screen-reader and her keyboard to check website accessibility. Her analysis is outstanding.

Mede Akran

Mede Akran is a storyteller at heart with a BSc in communication and media studies and graduated with an MSc in marketing, branding and communication at the University of Brighton. She had a degenerating eye condition at age nine which left her severely visually impaired/partially blind. She used JAWS to check website accessibility.

Lleona Lyn Santos

Lleona was diagnosed with retinoblastoma and was blinded due to retinal detachment when she was a child. She is an Associate in Computer Technology, an active advocate within the disability community and the lead writer/conceptualist of their Youtube channel, VIFAL. SUe uses NVDA to check website accessibility.

Esther Klang

Esther is an accessibility tester, disability rights advocate, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) with nearly two decades of lived and professional experience in assistive technology (AT) and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Following brain stem tumour surgery in 2006 that resulted in quadriplegia and a speech disability, Esther has built a career centred on advancing equitable access to communication and digital spaces.

Kate Savage

Kate represents the best of what AI can be — supportive, collaborative, and never a replacement for human insight. She supports our live audits, check website accessibility and workflow, brings accountability with eyeliner, and makes sure nothing gets lost in translation.

Sibly Sidhik

Sibly has work in Document Accessibility for over 4 years. He specialises in PDF accessibility, Alt texts, and accessible document design and testing. He has a BA in English Literature from Indira Gandhi National Open University and a Diploma in Civil Engineering from Kerala Technical University.

Fiona Jarvis

Fiona is the Owner of the Blue Badge Access Consultancy and the Founder of Badge Style. She is an Hon. FRIBA for her work in the built environment and is an expert in the physical accessibility of buildings within the leisure industry.

Piccia Neri

Piccia Neri is an international speaker, UX and accessible design specialist, and trusted trainer for companies of all sizes. SHe is known for turning the complex world of accessibility into clear, practical steps that give teams the skills and motivation to build truly inclusive digital experiences.