2026 Shortlisted Nominee
Lifetime Achiever Award
Jonathan Hassell is a global leader in digital accessibility, dedicating 25 years to ensuring disabled people are not excluded as the world moves online. Beginning at the BBC in 2000, he wrote its first accessibility guidelines and led the development of BS 8878, later expanded into ISO 30071‑1, now used internationally. Through Hassell Inclusion, founded in 2010, he and his team have supported over 200 organisations to serve more than 10 million disabled users. Jonathan has authored bestselling Inclusive Design books, trained thousands worldwide, and created free global resources, webinars and tools. His work has transformed accessibility from a technical checklist into a worldwide movement for digital inclusion.