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Michael Mathews

@micmath.me.uk

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Web developer, digital accessibility advocate. Ex BBC. Ex New Yorker. American expat living in the UK. Old skool liberal. Curmudgeon. He/Him #autism #ASD 🌈♾️🌻 #a11y #webdev #LGBTQ+ ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 07/09/2026

Mmmmm. Protein. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Partial image of food shown on a restaurant’s menu of what appears to be rounded strips of brownish gloop covered with a web of black slime strings?

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 02/04/2025

Notpat says: "What's so great about being hinged anyway? Unhinged is highly underrated if you ask me. Rarrr!"

Dinosaur plush toy wearing a orange and white hoodie with pointed ears.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 23/02/2025

Is it my imagination or was this related to a similar trend of clear beverages?

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 09/02/2025

50 years later, I'm still traumatised from having watched this supposedly children's film. It's upsetting me to even write this.

Screengrab from the movie Disney's "Old Yeller" showing the main characters, a boy aged about 8 kneeling in the grass next to a large blonde dog. They are surrounded by trees and appear to be looking intently at something below and out of view. The boy's expression is as if he is conversing with the dog.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 01/02/2025

It was actually a good trip but as with any tourist area oversees, you have to look after yourself.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 21/12/2024

With quite a few accessibility errors on the Time magazine website, the devs decided to spend effort on this:

Today's Time magazine homepage is open in my web browser with the source code displayed in a pane next to it. At the top of the HTML source is a comment containing a huge figlet (a banner created by combining letters and punctuation characters to form much larger letters) spelling out the name of the magazine: "TIME."

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 05/12/2024

The best I can come up with is to use `aria-describedby` on the heading and `aria-hidden` on the section descriptor. Is there a better solution?

HTML snippet showing three elements: the first is a div with ID set to "topic descriptor" and ARIA hidden set to "true." This div has the text "Holiday Drink." Next is an H1 element with ARIA describedby set to "topic descriptor." This H1 has the text "Santa's Flaming Brandy and Eggnog Surprise." Finally, there is a paragraph with placeholder text "lorem ipsum."

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 19/11/2024

Giving out blocks like I’m Minecraft today.

Clip from a Minecraft game. The character is stacking building blocks on top of each other.

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Michael Mathews @micmath.me.uk · 14/11/2024

Captain: “It’s been a tough year since the election.” TinTin: “Captain, it’s only been 9 days.”

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