As a disabled blogger, freelance writer and disability advocate, I welcome the opportunity to work with brands and organisations that have accessibility embedded in their ethos.
Raising awareness and educating others is at the heart of everything I do. When I’m not carrying out my day job as a social media professional, I’m tapping away at my laptop working on my next blog post or piece of writing.
I’d love to explore more opportunities. If you’re interested in working together, please get in touch!
What I can do for you
Just some of the potential ways we can work together:
- Guest blog posts
- Freelance writing
- Content creation
- Sponsored social media content
- Product reviews (that are relevant to vision impairment/disability)
Previous collaborations
Some of my previous collaborations include:
- Ability Superstore
- AccessAble
- Amazon Alexa
- Attitude is Everything
- BBC (BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Manchester, and BBC Radio York)
- Be My Eyes
- Dolphin Computer Access
- HeX Productions
- Innosearch
- LOOK UK
- Millercare
- Opticoaster
- Oxfam
- Passenger Assistance
- RNIB
- Scope
- SproutSocial
- VICTA
Visit my portfolio to explore my published work for the likes of Allure Magazine, The Guardian, HuffPost, Her Football Hub and Metro.
Accessible social media
I’m very lucky to work as a social media professional within the charity sector – a job that I truly love.
My passion for accessibility led me to the world of comms, and I’ve never looked back.
I’m also an accessibility advocate, so you’ll usually find me talking about accessibility to anyone who’ll listen.
If you’d like to work together on making your social media content more accessible, drop me a message and let’s chat!
Testimonials
“I first discovered Holly via her blog article Your A-Z guide for social media accessibility. I very quickly became an avid reader of her posts as part of my interest in digital accessibility and inclusion. But it went beyond that, as Holly has a wonderful way of writing that made me want to read more and more. I soon contacted Holly for advice on making Oxfam’s digital content more accessible. To my delight, Holly replied quickly and had clearly given time to reflect and respond to my questions. And so, when I wanted someone to run a webinar on how to write alt text, Holly was my first and only choice. What happened next was our most attended and best-loved accessibility webinars (there have been many). Holly spoke with the kind of authority that can only come from someone with lived experience, whilst coming across with genuine warmth and understanding for her audience.
I look forward to planning more sessions like this with Holly soon, and my advice to whoever is reading this is to book her whilst you still can!”
Garry Richardson, Head of Digital Experience, Oxfam GB
“Holly was a joy to work with during our Digital Accessibility Matters campaign. Having read a range of Holly’s insightful blogs previously, we knew we wanted her alongside us on our mission to help shape an equal digital space for all. As anticipated, her in depth knowledge on the need for inclusive design and passion for advocating for change shone through in the thought-provoking blog that she provided. This blog was a big hit with our followers and helped to provide a deeper understanding on the barriers that many face in society due to poor accessibility and assisted us in propelling this important message far and wide.
Nothing was ever too much trouble for Holly, who went above and beyond to help our team during the campaign. We would most definitely work with Holly again in the future.”
Cheryl Swan, Digital Engagement Manager, HeX Productions
“I had been following Holly’s posts about accessible communications on LinkedIn for a while and so I was delighted when she agreed to write a guest blog for my Time for Kindness site. She immediately understood what I wanted to achieve by focussing on the positive impact of communicating in accessible ways. Her piece brought her advocacy to life through her own story and easy to apply, practical steps, as well as a friendly and approachable tone of voice. Her piece has been one of the most popular so far on my kindness blog!”
Sarah Browning, Kindness Cheerleader, Communicator and Copywriter, Browning York and Time for Kindness
![Not only did I attend the 7 goal thriller between @arsenalwfc and @manutdwomen on the final day of the 2024/25 @barclayswsl season over the weekend, I was also provided with the most amazing audio descriptive commentary.
It’s no secret my love of Manchester United. I’m going to make it known now that I have a pretty big soft spot for Arsenal too.
Many of the Arsenal team are some of my favourites. It’s also clear that the club care about accessibility and inclusion for disabled supporters, something that’s extremely important to me.
And their commitment to accessibility was clear from the call I made to book tickets, right through to the match itself.
But the audio descriptive commentary scored an extra goal or two for me. Audio descriptive commentary is a rarity in the women’s game. It’s something I’ve been desperate to experience for the last few years. Now that I’ve had that experience, I can wholeheartedly say that it completely transforms the experience of the match as a blind fan. I don’t have the words to explain the feeling of inclusion it gave me.
I tried to sum it up, documenting my experience of the match over on the blog. If you’d like to give it a read, head over to lifeofablindgirl.com – a link to my blog is also in my bio.
Thanks to an epic game on the pitch and the accessibility off it, the Arsenal versus United match is by far my favourite game I’ve ever attended. I hope to be returning to the Emirates soon!
@arsenal @manchesterunited @alanmarchsport
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Image 1: Holly stood in the Emirates Stadium with a view of the pitch behind her. She’s wearing a light blue denim jacket and is smiling at the camera.
Image 2: A Manchester United player running towards the Arsenal goal in the semicircle of the penalty area. Arsenal players can be seen positioned around her.
Image 3: Two Arsenal players hugging each other after celebrating a goal. Other Arsenal players can be seen running towards them to join in the celebrations, whilst Manchester United players are walking away. The Arsenal players are wearing their red home shirts, and the Manchester United players are wearing their blue away shirts.]](https://lifeofablindgirl.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)