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Geri Reid

@gerireid.com
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Everyone’s fave goth Mom. Lead Accessibility Specialist at Just Eat. Design systems and nerdery. Be kind ❤️ gerireid.com

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 4h
The 11th edition of the @webaim.bsky.social Screen Reader User Survey is now live! This is a vital resource into better understanding how people who use screen readers actually operate your website or app. webaim.org/projects/scr... My commentary on it as a thread 🧵 #a11y
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WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #11 Results
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 12/09/2026
Trying out Lorist, @scott.is's writing app beta which is delightfully simple and exports to markdown and html: mindfuldesign.xyz/products/#lo...
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Mindful Design Products – Mindful Design
Mindful Design products are forever–free products designed from the ground up to be calm, opinionated, and lovely to use.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 12/09/2026
A timely reminder that the joy is in the writing ❤️
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 03/09/2026
Yay! Love this conf ❤️
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 27/08/2026
Social media occasionally presents me with a gem like this, making the terrible business of participating worthwhile.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 22/08/2026
Celebrating this good boys 10th birthday today 🎉 In good shape for a 3 legged septuagenarian.
A grey French bulldog sits side on smiling at the camera
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 25/06/2026
This UK heatwave is making it difficult to uphold my goth values. Wearing shorts to the office and feel like I’m letting the sisterhood down 🐈‍⬛
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Scott Riley @scott.is · 24/06/2026
bsky hail mary because any second not spent on linkedin is a second to be cherished: i’m booking work in for july/august and would very much like to work with nice people on nice things. if you have any reccs then pls let me know thanks love ya x
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 24/06/2026
When I first moved to London, my biggest fear was being caught up in a terrorist incident. Now it's being taken out by a 14 year old on a Lime bike doing 25mph through a red light while looking at TikTok.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 20/06/2026
Heading home from @pixelpioneers.co with a full heart - props to @oliverlindberg.com for a fab lineup and vibes, also @heydonworks.com for unleashing HyperBlam with backing dancers 🖤 hyperblam.how
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Hyperblam Docs Home
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 16/06/2026
Started out trying to make documentation easier for humans and AI to read. Months later, I'm having an existential crisis about filing cabinets: gerireid.com/blog/organis...
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Your documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet
It's kind of wild that we're still organising knowledge like it's sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don't think in folders. They find information through search, context and connections...
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 10/06/2026
Hey, @pixelpioneers.co is next week! There's a warmup event at the Just Eat office if anyone's around the night before👇
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 10/06/2026
Good explainer on how the EAA and EN 301 549 flow down into national accessibility laws across the EU. #a11y en.gehirngerecht.digital/eu-accessibi...
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EU accessibility laws, decoded
Confused about EU accessibility laws? Learn which rules apply and how to design compliant web products across Europe.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 01/06/2026
Hire this magnificent person ✨
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Luke Murphy @lurkmoophy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Anybody in web dev/design looking for opportunities to get on stage and speak? We're looking for @webdevconf.com lightning speakers for October 9 in Bristol. 15 minutes on stage to strut your stuff! Reply or DM if you're interested!
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 29/05/2026
It’s been a hot week for my snorty co-worker.
A grey French bulldog cools off in a blue plastic child’s paddling pool in a garden.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 25/05/2026
Somewhere a LinkedIn thought leader is silently furious they didn’t come up with this first.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 22/05/2026
Happy World Goth Day! Seems a deeply impractical time of year to be stomping about London in black knee length Doc Martens like you’re off to a Victorian funeral: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_G...
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 21/05/2026
Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #GAAD accessibility.day I’ll be at the London GAAD Foundation event later if any of you nerds are stopping by 👋
accessibility.day
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 19/05/2026
Excellent read. Most accessibility issues occur because product teams assume everyone uses the web the way they do.
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Shaun @sconner.net · 15/05/2026
Yay! I'm hiring two Senior Accessibility Specialists to join my team on GOV.UK One Login. You'll be working with great people, solving complex problems for tens of millions of users. Salary of £70,834 - £74,317 (London) / £63,240 - £66,610 (National). Please share!
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Quick Check Needed
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 15/05/2026
A group of us ran Sara's course like a book club where we watched a section each week and regrouped to discuss. Highly recommend, I often refer back when working on components.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 13/05/2026
Interesting read on the state of AI in design systems. I'm delighted that all the boring, structured, plain language documentation I've written is finally deemed useful.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 11/05/2026
If you're in Bristol the night before Pixel Pioneers, come to a meetup at the Just Eat offices for some lightning talks and chat. We're on the harbourside just along from the venue 👇
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 08/05/2026
Heading home from #AllDayHey. What a lovely community you lot are. In an industry that’s constantly in flux, it genuinely warms my heart that people still care about each other and about making the web better ❤️
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Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Design system folks, if I were to run a half day design system strategy workshop online, would you be interested in that?
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 18/04/2026
This is such a joyous read to start the weekend ❤️
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 09/04/2026
Lovely Easter week walking the Cornish coast path with this chonky lad
A smiling Geri on a scenic coastal path, wearing a backpack containing her grey French Bulldog
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 31/03/2026
Excellent read. Sad having to smuggle accessibility in through stealthy means but aligning to a business goal makes it easier to get permission: piccalil.li/blog/applyin... #a11y
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Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good
This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully...
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Oliver Lindberg @oliverlindberg.com · 19/03/2026
✍️ How to annotate design system components for accessibility (by @gerireid.com): zeroheight.com/blog/how-to-...
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How to annotate design system components for accessibility - zeroheight
Geri Reid shares how accessibility annotations for design systems help teams document components, create reusable specs, and build inclusive products.
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zeroheight @zeroheight.com · 17/03/2026
The 5th edition of the Design Systems Report is here 📔 Design systems are now critical infrastructure—but they’re getting harder to sustain. Buy-in is dropping. Teams are stretched. Adoption is still the biggest challenge. Explore the report → hubs.li/Q04774jK0
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Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It’s that time again - I’m on the hunt for new clients from the beginning of April. I’m open to full or part-time contracts outside IR35. I can help you with: - design system consultancy, coaching, management or documentation - content design - UX writing - technical writing 1/2
amyhupe.co.uk
Hello.
Content design and design systems consultant
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 01/03/2026
@oliverturner.cloud amused how we’ve been chatting for about 15 years but didn’t recognise each other until we exchanged profile pictures 🙃
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 01/03/2026
Chatted to @matuzo.at last night and got a receipt! #SotB26
A grainy black and white photo of a smiling Manuel and Geri torn off from an instant camera roll
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 28/02/2026
Props to @letorey.co.uk for #SotB26, such an uplifting and inclusive event. What a lovely community you are 🧡
Dave on stage at State of the Browser in front of a slide saying Hello SotB26
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 15/02/2026
We’ve been testing how machine-readable our design system documentation is. Turns out, AI agents and humans benefit from exactly the same qualities: gerireid.com/blog/ai-is-a...
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AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible
Writing documentation for AI retrieval improves accessibility for humans too.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 14/02/2026
These are cute 💘
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 06/02/2026
After weeks of rain, London streets are full of loose cobblestones that mercilessly omit 5 litres of foul brown poo poo sewer water into your loafer.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 31/01/2026
If you work in accessibility, WebAim’s salary survey results are worth a read. UK and EU salaries are the lowest which is unsurprising: webaim.org/projects/sal...
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WebAIM: Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey #2
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 26/01/2026
Today I became a Britisher! Here’s me…looking slightly pained, and King Charles, maintaining an appropriate constitutional distance 🇬🇧
Flag waving Geri patriotically holding her British Nationality certificate in front of some flags, a photo of King Charles, and a very patient lady from Islington Town Hall.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 22/01/2026
Ran a day of design crits for UX undergrads at the University of Reading today. Exhausted, but genuinely hopeful. Young designer thinking is pretty ace.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 09/10/2025
If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 14/01/2026
I mean, what could be more exciting on a Wednesday than reading about the European Accessibility Act?
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 14/01/2026
The @zeroheight.com survey is a useful snapshot of design system trends each year - it gets more valuable as more of us fill it in👇
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 07/01/2026
Lots of new reads for 2026 🥳
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Hidde @hidde.blog · 06/01/2026
✏️ 5 accessibility checks to run on every component zeroheight.com/blog/5-acces... I guest-posted on zeroheight's blog about accessibility of components! (note: WCAG compliance is claimed on full pages/processes only)
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5 accessibility checks to run on every component - zeroheight
Hidde de Vries explains how to test components for accessibility, from keyboard support to screen readers and zoom.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year from sunny Perth 🇦🇺
Geri and her two daughters celebrating behind giant 2026 numbers in a sunny park with blue sky and trees.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 24/12/2025
Merry Christmas from Lake Taupo, New Zealand 🎄 Got up early to do the Parkrun round the lake with my big sis.
Geri and her sister smiling wearing sunglasses and Santa hats in a crowd of runners with the lake and trees behind.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 18/12/2025
Delighted to contribute to the HTMLHell advent calendar. I explained how screen readers don’t always announce what’s visually on screen - through the medium of burritos: www.htmhell.dev/adventcalend... Thanks to experts @matuzo.at and @hidde.blog for making sure the burrito was structurally sound.
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Don't leave the screen reader hungry - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Geri Reid @gerireid.com · 16/12/2025
Wrote a piece for the @zeroheight.com blog on annotating design system components for accessibility: zeroheight.com/blog/how-to-... #a11y
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How to annotate design system components for accessibility - zeroheight
Geri Reid shares how accessibility annotations for design systems help teams document components, create reusable specs, and build inclusive products.
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