Matt Obee

What do you think about digital #accessibility?
 Complete AbilityNet's annual survey for a chance to win a ticket to TechShare Pro 2026. Whatever your current role, please share your thoughts. It takes 10-20 minutes to complete. www.surveymonkey.com/r/Attitudes2...

Can 2027 be the year we finally get all the Core Web Vitals in all browsers? 🙏 Work your magic folks: github.com/web-platform... #webperf

WebAIM's 11th Screen Reader User Survey is now open. If you use a screen reader (even just for testing), your input helps shape how the web gets built. 28 quick questions, ~5-10 min, open through August 31, 2026. webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey11 #accessibility

All of the talks from Access:Given 2026 are now available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Accessibility

It's midnight and I've started watching a 40 minute video about a bloke servicing a Bosch hammer drill.

America sells a thing called “Beer Cheese” with no explanation.

Today is World Braille Day, marking Louis Braille's birthday. At 15, he created a system that gives millions of blind people independence. Check out LEGO Braille Bricks for a fun way to learn braille at any age. braillebricks.com #WorldBrailleDay #Accessibility

Just me? "We've got a load of unrelated local changes. Batch them into logical commits and push."

Me: "I bet ChatGPT has come up with some great deep research insights for my question about accessibility in design systems." ChatGPT: "I’m thinking through a funeral director's wine blog and personal site..."

🚨 Was the Emergency Alert test accessible to you? We’d like to hear your experiences. All you have to do is comment on this post, and our team will collate your answers and share your responses with the team running the Emergency Alert tests.

Came for a burger, ended up with a logical paradox. This McDonalds location is closed until it’s open, which is 24 hours a day.

“Add AI intelligence”

This #GAAD and every GAAD, you can champion #accessibility by hiring accessibility specialists, paying them well, ensuring they have what they need to be successful and make a change, and by not putting their heads on the chopping block first whenever layoffs roll around. #a11y

And the bug that caused GAAD to appear yesterday has been fixed. 😅

OK I want to know more about BT's web infrastructure. I've created an account and now they're like "please allow at least 10 minutes from the time you receive your activation email before completing this step". Is someone literally scribing my details onto a parchment scroll or something?

Come check out our talk today at #Config2025!

I can’t tell what’s real and what’s AI these days.

“Where’s Mummy?” “Gone to the shop.” “Why not?” “Why not what?” “Where’s Mummy?” “Gone to the shop!” “Why not?!” “WHY NOT WHAT?!”

Just updated our guide to using Signal. If you aren't already on Signal, this will get you up to speed. Also, you should be using Signal—there's no time like this very second! www.wired.com/story/signal...

I’m flying at 40,000ft and my dishwasher has just messaged to say it has finished its load. What a time to be alive.

Jet lag compels me to eat crisps and Skittles for dinner.

Landed in San Francisco. Walking around on the rug, making fists with my toes.

Don’t talk to me about Agent Experience until you’ve fixed User Experience.

Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site. obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...

It is still unplugged…

I just made a thing: A collection of links for web developers to navigate the web platform more easily. 🟢 Places to follow progress and keep track. 🟣 Places to make your voice heard and influence the platform with your use cases.

Friend made a website just for this

🦊 Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a team of extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave. Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin...

Do I really need 3 screens though? I’ve unplugged one as an experiment.

Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone schepp.dev/posts/rethin...

If you’ve used GitHub Copilot chat on GitHub.com/copilot recently, you may have noticed some new life breathed into the Copilot chat avatar with interactive 3D character animations. Let's do a deep dive 🧵on how we hacked it together for the front end 🤓’s out there…

Guess whatttttt I'm hiring engineers for my team (accessibility engineering) and one of my immediate peers is also hiring for Primer, our design system! We are looking for earlier-in-career folks as Software Engineer IIs, to best complement and round out our teams. githubinc.jibeapply.com/jobs/3987

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE. I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.

Hatred of pronouns is absurd. It’s just basic good manners and respect. Tell me what name you go by and how to pronounce it and that’s what I’ll call you. Same for pronouns. I might get them wrong occasionally, but I try, and it costs me nothing.

The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

The digital infrastructure of the United States Government is both critical and fragile. Many of us who work in digital government have been trying to figure out what’s going on as norms and protocols are being subverted — Thread on some of what we know so far:

The US Web Design System deletes info on inclusive design, in response to the Executive order "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs...". github.com/uswds/uswds-... Why not use the Inclusive Design principles instead: inclusivedesignprinciples.info #accessibility #a11y #inclusion

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

Hi new Bluesky followers! We're SpecialEffect, the UK based charity helping to level the playing field for people with physical disabilities all over the world 💙🧡 Here's a look at some of the smiles we, and our incredible supporters, have helped create together since the charity began in 2007!

When your GP turns off econsult on Monday due to the influx of submissions, having turned it off all weekend.

What a fabulously terrible idea. ground.news/article/perp...

AI be like "added ARIA for accessibility" and I'm like 🧐

Who’s writing about all the companies demolishing internal DEI? Looking for a solid list that is being updated and monitored regularly #DEI #News #Journalism #JournalismSky

Whenever I see braille I think of my Mum. She uses her computer with speech output and enjoys listening to audiobooks, but braille is still her favourite way to read and write. She gets excited whenever she finds it on product packaging. Hat tip to Co-op, perhaps the only UK supermarket to bother.

Our report on 3 years of #accessibility monitoring is live! 16,000 barriers removed across the UK public sector, the most common are contrast, focus, keyboard and reflow. Chris Heathcote's blog and link to the Government Digital Service report: accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/17/w... 📜 #a11y