Alistair Duggin

Alistair Duggin is an independent accessibility specialist and consultant from the UK. He has over 20 years of digital experience, starting off as a web developer at the BBC and emerging as an eminent advocate for accessible design.

Alistair is the former Head of Accessibility at Government Digital Services, where he transformed how the UK government approached accessibility: embedding accessibility in the GOV.UK Service Manual and Design System, building and supporting a 1500+ strong cross-government accessibility community and creating the UK's first assistive technology empathy/device lab. Alistair helped GOV.UK achieve its status as a globally recognised examplar for accessibility and built up the London Accessibility Meetup to be the largest accessibility meetup in the world.

Other roles have included being a Senior Accessibility Consultant at Apple and Principal Accessibility Consultant at Nomensa where, for the last 2 years, he has been growing their team of accessibility consultants and working with private, public and charity sector clients including NHS.UK, WeTransfer and the Alzheimer's Society. Alistair's approach to accessibility on the BBC 2012 London Olympics website inspired the creation of the BBC's accessibility champions network.