Matt Obee

@obee.me

Staff Accessibility Designer @GitHub.com. Maintainer of @Eventua11y.com. Postgraduate student of Systems Thinking at the OU. Builder of LEGO. Seb's Dad. Views are my own etc. mattobee.com

I’m updating events for 2026 on Eventua11y and experimenting with having Claude create them using the Sanity MCP server. I am of course checking them, but if there’s temporary weirdness, that’s why!

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.

'Was the emergency alert accessible?' An illustration of a red triangle with a black exclamation mark dictates an emergency signal.

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.

Screenshot from the McDonalds app displaying a message that says “this location is closed until open 24 hours. Please select an open location to pick up your order.”

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

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?

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

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.

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.

Navigating the Web Platform Cheatsheet

As a web developer, navigating the web platform isn't always easy. Here are ways to keep track of what you can use, of what's new in web browsers, and ways you can influence the development of the…

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🦊 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...

Moving on from 18F. — ethanmarcotte.com

I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.

ethanmarcotte.com