I’ve watched the Perseids from some pretty different places over the years. Offshore Angola, when I was working as a navigator. North Wales in 2024, when the Perseids happened to share the sky with the northern lights. This year, though,…
As a STEM Ambassador, data professional, and Trustee of Technology Books for Children, I am passionate about helping young people discover the opportunities that technology can create. Having built a career in data and technology, I have seen first-hand how…
Many of you may not know yet, but I started my career in Physical Oceanography, specialising in ocean data analysis and circulation numerical model validation using MATLAB. Then I moved to be a Navigator, and funnily enough, physical oceanography and…
I’ve just pushed two updates to PBIR A11y CLI: a license change, and a new release that fixes a real detection bug and adds two features people had been asking for. Starting with the license. PBIR A11y CLI was originally…
I’ve just published a new tool: PBIR A11y CLI. It’s a command-line version of PBIX A11y, built to check Power BI accessibility while you’re building a report rather than after it’s finished. PBIX A11y has always worked the same way:…
My latest article is now live on the Power BI Community Blog! “Accessibility in Action: Building Reusable Alternative Text Logic in DAX User-Defined Functions“. This time I’m diving into how User‑Defined Functions (UDFs) can make alternative text in Power BI…
Another episode of PBIX A11y Bytes is Live!Alt Text in Power BI: Practical Guidance, UDFs, and Real Examples If our dashboards look great but someone can’t see the screen, the insight is gone. Alt text is how we bring that…
I’ve just shipped v1.1.0 of the Power BI Alt Text UDF Library, and this update brings a big expansion: a brand‑new family of six accessibility‑focused DAX UDFs designed to describe common KPI visual patterns with clean, structured, screen‑reader‑friendly narratives. This…
What started as a LinkedIn newsletter in 2024 has finally become a fully built platform, and I can now say I have closure. Those stories are no longer sitting in a newsletter archive. School‑aged children can now explore them, interact…
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Her+ Tech Hub. After noticing a common challenge across the tech community, Traci Sewell, Margarita Neumüller, Marisol Steinau, Yvette Lovas, and I came together to launch this community. Time and again, we saw…
