At the British Museum, Jodi worked to ensure that the British Museum’s COMPASS website was accessible to all. She developed a text-only version of COMPASS, organised testing of the system by blind and partially sighted users and worked with the system developers on changes informed by the testing process.

She also worked on accessible text descriptions, which fed into the development of content on children’s COMPASS. She made sure that there were desks of variable height at the former British Library Reading Room, making it accessible to wheelchair users.

At the Royal National Institute of Blind People, Jodi promoted audio description in the theatre for visually impaired people. Weakened by cancer during her last months, she rallied enormous energy to complete an important research report into how theatres manage audio description services. The report looked at how theatres provide front-of-house staff training, how they integrate describers into their work, what technology they use, what training they receive, how visually impaired people are involved and how the service is marketed.

Her former colleagues remember her for her enormous energy and winning enthusiasm. Jodi could also be unflinching in her insistence that access for disabled people has to be part of the design brief of any service.

Throughout her short career, Jodi believed that organisations need to change and involve disabled people to provide equal service to disabled people. In her work, Jodi exemplified the power of personal engagement to transform reality.