Geri Reid

Let’s go! #converge2026

This is such an uplifting newsletter containing so much goodness ❤️

@joshtumath.uk lovely to see you Josh! Here’s a pic of you before they turned off the light of a thousand suns 😎

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

Trying out Lorist, @scott.is's writing app beta which is delightfully simple and exports to markdown and html: mindfuldesign.xyz/products/#lo...

A timely reminder that the joy is in the writing ❤️

Yay! Love this conf ❤️

Social media occasionally presents me with a gem like this, making the terrible business of participating worthwhile.

Celebrating this good boys 10th birthday today 🎉 In good shape for a 3 legged septuagenarian.

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 🐈‍⬛

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.

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

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...

Hey, @pixelpioneers.co is next week! There's a warmup event at the Just Eat office if anyone's around the night before👇

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...

Hire this magnificent person ✨

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!

It’s been a hot week for my snorty co-worker.

Somewhere a LinkedIn thought leader is silently furious they didn’t come up with this first.

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...

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 👋

Excellent read. Most accessibility issues occur because product teams assume everyone uses the web the way they do.

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!

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.

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.

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 👇

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 ❤️

Design system folks, if I were to run a half day design system strategy workshop online, would you be interested in that?

This is such a joyous read to start the weekend ❤️

Lovely Easter week walking the Cornish coast path with this chonky lad

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

✍️ How to annotate design system components for accessibility (by @gerireid.com): zeroheight.com/blog/how-to-...

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

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

@oliverturner.cloud amused how we’ve been chatting for about 15 years but didn’t recognise each other until we exchanged profile pictures 🙃

Chatted to @matuzo.at last night and got a receipt! #SotB26

Props to @letorey.co.uk for #SotB26, such an uplifting and inclusive event. What a lovely community you are 🧡

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...

These are cute 💘

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.

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...

Today I became a Britisher! Here’s me…looking slightly pained, and King Charles, maintaining an appropriate constitutional distance 🇬🇧

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.

If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place

I mean, what could be more exciting on a Wednesday than reading about the European Accessibility Act?

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👇

Lots of new reads for 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)

Happy New Year from sunny Perth 🇦🇺