Matt Eason @MattEason Twitter profile

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Matt Eason

23 days

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT My website, "The Wilhelm Scream every time the Tories lose", will be running on election night There will be one (1) scream per seat won by anyone but the Tories Set a reminder to open at 10pm on 4 July ENDS

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@metpoliceuk Can you please provide the criteria your officers used to determine who to swab, the number of people swabbed and the number of positive results for each drug tested for? For avoidance of doubt, this is a Freedom of Information request

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Matt Eason

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2 years

@metpoliceuk Oh, and could you also tell me the legal basis on which this operation was carried out - that is, what law allows you to swab whatever people you choose under whatever criteria were used? And were the people you chose given the opportunity to decline consent?

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

The X/Twitter update to remove headlines from link previews has also completely broken their accessibility. The link/image can't be tabbed to with the keyboard, and it's been totally hidden from screen readers. Here's how to make your links accessible until it's fixed (thread)

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1 year

Hi @IoWBobSeely , I saw you on #Newsnight just now denying that you called the privileges committee a kangaroo court. Here's you calling the privileges committee a kangaroo court.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

@fesshole Uh, I don't think being a massive racist damages your chances of being a successful hard right politician

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

If you're still awake, and you enjoyed this, and you like low-fi ambient beats to relax/study to, and you like trains, and you like Scotland, then you might like Relax to Scottish train announcements over low-fi beats or whatever YouTube music you want

Ambient ScotRail Beats

Train announcements over ambient music

www.matteason.co.uk

Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@jonbradyphoto If anyone needs this split into 2,440 individual mp3s - because why wouldn't you - I've put them here: And if anyone wants to help transcribe all the files, here's a shared sheet, which has a good chance of descending into chaos:

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Matt Eason

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2 years

@jonbradyphoto If anyone needs this split into 2,440 individual mp3s - because why wouldn't you - I've put them here: And if anyone wants to help transcribe all the files, here's a shared sheet, which has a good chance of descending into chaos:

ScotRail announcements June 2022 index

Sheet6 Hello! I'm going to turn off anonymous edit access to this sheet now, but please request access if you'd like to keep editing it Announcements can be found in the 'Announcements' tab at the...

docs.google.com

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@Costaroninswife @metpoliceuk Yes, you're right - that's an important distinction

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

I've built a thing to try and mitigate the impact of X/Twitter's link preview changes. Just add before any URL you share here and it will show a card with a small thumbnail, the headline and a description (on desktop) For example:

theverge.com: X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better

It’s a very annoying change.

hdlne.me

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

3 years

@BlondeHistorian I'm sorry, I know this isn't the point, but "all the members will be scared of the dog"? Has this person ever met people?

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@gdiddlydog "Due to a short platform, passengers for Thisk should travel in the driver's cab"

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Matt Eason

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2 years

@TwitterDev Blink twice if he's standing behind you

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

1 year

@CCHQPress Hi @CCHQPress , it looks like you've accidentally edited out all the bits where he talks about prosecuting her or applying a prevention order rather than extrajudicially stripping her of her citizenship. Whoops! I've included the unedited video here to help you out

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

Scottish train announcements over the sound of a black hole

NASA Exoplanets

@NASAExoplanets

2 years

The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!

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Matt Eason

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2 years

My Heart Will Trombone #TromboneChamp

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

6 months

@DWPgovuk @mimsdavies You may want to delete this and repost with alt text because it's not a good start

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

If the link is the very last thing in your tweet, X/Twitter removes the link from your post and just shows the preview. You need to paste the link TWICE, then the first one will show up. Or you can include some other text after the link. You should also include the article title.

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Matt Eason

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1 year

@metpoliceuk Doesn't seem like a very effective liaison team if you liaise with them and *still* end up getting arrested. When you say "it was not clear", do you mean they told the arresting officers and the officers didn't care? Because it seems unlikely that didn't come up in conversation

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

5 years

@johnlewis The dragon prosthetics were amazing, how long did they take you to put on?

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

3 years

I recently made an FOI request to @TfL for their Equality Impact Assessment on Colourful Crossings (AKA 'the asphalt art project'), plus any other documents they held which considered the impact they have on disabled people (long thread)

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@fesshole OK Rishi, sure

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Matt Eason

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1 year

The denial, for context

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1 year

@fesshole

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

I don't understand how they've messed this up. It *could* have been accessible, because they're using the aria-label on the link to allow the headline to be read by screen readers and other assistive tech. But the aria-hidden="true" on the div around it means AT can't see it.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

btw that sound you hear is a million developers scrabbling to burn headlines into their OpenGraph image previews so people know wtf they're clicking on

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

7 months

@fesshole Uncle Roger, is that you?

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@doddleoddle uh

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling It's not even being prosecuted Met police said “The matter was concluded by way of a community resolution order issued to the driver, who also agreed to pay compensation for the damage to the man.”

Luxury SUV crushes bicycle as road rage escalates in front of horrified onlookers

Witnesses captured the moment a driver mows down a bicycle, with the cyclist only narrowly escaping in time.

7news.com.au

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

1 year

Uhh @BBCBweaking have you moved into real estate?

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

9 months

This is such an obviously awful idea that I've put in an FOI request to @TfL to find out how it got signed off. I'll report back when I get a response (it's due 16 October). I've excluded commercial information from my request because it would likely delay the response.

TfL

@TfL

9 months

Introducing #Burberry Street 👀 ✨ To celebrate #LondonFashionWeek , Bond Street has transformed into Burberry Street, featuring knight blue, a colour debuted by Chief Creative Officer Daniel Lee as one of @Burberry ’s new brand colours Visit Bond Street until 19 September to see

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

4 years

@noelfielding11 "This is Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon, because I love dragons and adventure" #noelsartclub

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

4 months

@DawnButlerBrent @GoodLawProject A bare-faced lie from @RishiSunak . Here's the cookie banner on the Tory website. The ICO are clear that users must be able to reject non-essential cookies as easily as they can accept. (Screenshot from a letter sent by ICO to sites which have banners which work like the Tories')

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@OliverDowden "Labour's strikes [which they are somehow responsible for despite us being in power for over twelve years]"

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

1 year

@fesshole Phrasing

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Matt Eason

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1 year

@TwitterDev Do you think there was maybe a better way to approach this than cutting off access to extremely popular apps without any notice then posting a two-sentence statement days later?

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

1 year

@TwitterDev You're not deprecating them, you're removing them. Deprecation means the feature remains available but unsupported

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

1 year

@fesshole That sounds awful. Where would you even find such a job? Like, what specific website would you go to? Or is there a phone number to call or what

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

6 years

@GiuseppeGarau @leeunkrich Not sure about the flags but the conductor is Coco's composer @m_giacchino !

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@billyeichner DON'T RUIN IT, HOW ELSE WILL WE BELIEVE IN LOVE

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

And then the tabindex="-1" on the link doesn't allow the link to be focussed with the keyboard. But they *are* pulling through the og:image:alt meta tag which gives the image the correct alt text. It's so weird.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

9 months

@PacoCuatroBurro @KatiePennick Do you want her to use her phone as a ramp?

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

Aside from the accessibility issues, I've seen a few people saying the design change was done to shrink the height of link previews so they can fit more tweets on screen at a time. So why not just do this? @x @support @elonmusk you can have this one free, it's on the house

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

5 months

@taskmaster @Channel4 A moment for the goose please, everyone

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

New accessibility bot klaxon! @UKGovAltBot posts whenever a government account (at the moment, central gov and cabinet ministers) posts an image without alt text. Most departments are pretty good at alt text now. Some others - and most ministers - not so much.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@SDUSMC @RAF_Luton @IntelDoge Why would the navy fly planes? Navy is boats. You can't fly a boats.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

1 year

@TheGrumpyBitch @IoWBobSeely Yes, @vicderbyshire told him he could watch it on iPlayer so I thought I'd save him the hassle

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

If you're a publisher or run any other website I recommend you switch to Summary Card format as soon as possible. They may well change that one too but it'll make your links usable for now. Just change <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"> to content="summary"

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

Worth saying this is tested on the web version. My Android app hasn't updated hasn't updated yet so I don't know if it's any better there.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

@SarahM_Matthews confirms links are also inaccessible in the Twitter app on iOS when using VoiceOver (they're announced but without a label giving the headline or any context)

Sarah Matthews

@SarahM_Matthews

8 months

@MattEason Yeah,when I saw it, the link in the tweet read as “link, image” with no preview text

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@metpoliceuk If you're about to reply telling me I need to submit an "official" FOI request (either politely or by calling me a donut) I'll save you some time:

Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@Anthony54296548 @metpoliceuk Hello Firstname Bunchofnumbers, here's the ICO's guidance explaining that FOI requests made on social media are completely valid 🍩

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@BFBSRadioHQ Canberra, Canberra, Canberra, Concorde, Canberra

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@damonlordwriter @fesshole @robmanuel we need a Blesshole

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

7 months

PLUG PLUG PLUG I built a white noise web app called Ambiphone It's good and free and has no ads Use it to calm yourself or your baby or your classroom of rowdy children Please try it! END OF PLUG

Ambiphone: Ambient music + sounds for work, study and relaxation

Ambient music + sounds for work, study and relaxation

ambiph.one

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@WhiteHouse You haven't been giving out free tests all this time?!

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Matt Eason

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2 years

@jonbradyphoto One hour gone, 53% complete. Who could possibly have predicted that asking people to meticulously catalogue Scottish train announcements would have been nerd catnip?

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

3 months

@fesshole It's a shame your dog is short AND weighs three tons. An unsolvable conundrum.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

lol [Alt for link image: Closeup of Elon Musk with a '' label in the bottom left. The link actually goes to an article headlined 'Elon Musk plans to remove headlines from news articles shared on X']

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Elon Musk endorses Joe Biden for re-election

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

A lesson in aesthetics from the man whose dream car looks like RoboCop's dick got slammed in a door

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

8 months

@cb_doge The text lines were removed from all external URL cards, as it was redundant and taking up too much vertical space. Pixel perfect.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

7 years

@AskHalifaxBank @rmoff If the "public" site isn't secure, an attacker can modify your page as it goes across the network so that when someone clicks sign in they're taken to a phishing page

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

9 months

@SurtseyAna @KatiePennick I truly don't understand the point you're making here. Police racism is bad. Inaccessibility is also bad. We should work to make sure neither happen rather than just accepting the status quo. What am I missing?

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Matt Eason

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7 months

@theresa_may I think someone's missing?

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Matt Eason

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3 years

@ShitUserStory As a... - user I want to... - select all the images with crosswalks and fire trucks so that... - I can prove that I am both human and American

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Matt Eason

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2 years

@molly0xFFF I'm sure this is all fine and dandy

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Matt Eason

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2 years

@cmajrail @gdiddlydog Incredible, I thought I was exaggerating

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Matt Eason

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4 years

@almurray

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Matt Eason

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2 years

@thatbilloakley I personally cannot wait to lease The Montgomery Ward Bill Oakley Signature Steamed Ham for only $16.99 a month

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

3 months

@Robert73568924 @MikeyCycling Highway Code rule 239. Of course it's sensible for cyclists to try and stay out of door zone, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the driver is at fault if they hit them. You should be checking your blind spot by looking over your shoulder, same as when changing lanes.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

Anyone having a BBQ today, stick ambient ScotRail beats on in the background and post a video and I'll love you forever. I'll let you decide if that's an incentive or a deterrent. I want to see you vibing to a supermarket trolley on the track.

Ambient ScotRail Beats

Train announcements over ambient music

matteason.co.uk

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

RIGHT. It turns out this change only applies to websites that have been configured to use the 'Summary Card with Large Image' format. The 'Summary Card' format is unaffected for now and will display as shown in my previous tweet.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@andlawton @doddleoddle Sources say he's a very good boy

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@Deloitte

Performative Pride

@P4mativePride

2 years

DELOITTE SERVICES LP contributed at least $2000 to Florida State Senators who voted for the "Don't Say Gay" bill betweeen October 18th, 2021 and December 1st, 2021. Here's what they contributed: (🧵)

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@fesshole I'm sure she's thrilled you refer to her as "current wife"

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@MattEason

2 years

@OliverDowden Also Oli if you're now very keen on fixing the cost of living crisis via the medium of trains, perhaps you could make it so my return ticket to work isn't £44 for a 35 mile journey? Cheers buddy

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Matt Eason

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3 years

@fesshole I think you can safely place some of the blame on whoever gave an 11 year old unsupervised access to an air rifle

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2 years

@MrBButterfield BONBO NBONB ONBON BONBO NBONB ONBON

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2 years

@annietrev @BorisJohnson Are you forgetting the bit where he resigned in disgrace

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

I asked an AI to write the pilot episode of "Scalpel, Please!" from #taskmaster and it immediately went meta. And sexy. @AlexHorne @FernBrady @daraobriain @johnsfurcoat

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@laurenlaverne @richardosman Hopefully Richard sticks around for a bit so the Osmen can learn by Osmosis

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@MattEason

2 years

@jonbradyphoto lol wtf

Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

ScotRail? Completed it mate

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

@WorldWideWob Thanks for trying it! More info if anyone else wants to use it

Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

Note that you need a slash between and the URL you're linking to (I had this in the original tweet but it got stripped out...) Here's an example:

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

Note that you need a slash between and the URL you're linking to (I had this in the original tweet but it got stripped out...) Here's an example:

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@MattEason

9 months

@TfL @KatiePennick Don't want to speak for @KatiePennick but this kind of reply always winds me up. - All the information you should need is in the video - If there's other information you need, tell her what it is so she can choose whether to reply in public or in DMs (or at all) (1/2)

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@MattEason

2 years

@HertsPolice "We refuse to admit our mistakes" would be a lot shorter and save us all some time

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@MattEason

2 years

@TheDanielNoonan @fesshole This sounds like the charity shop equivalent of your dog going to live on a nice farm in the countryside

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

9 months

@DisabilityGovUK Has this campaign site been through an accessibility audit? There's missing alt text on half of these images, and two of the three videos don't have transcripts

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@KollaChampagne @metpoliceuk Hi Ciarán - they can choose to tweet their reply, or publish on their disclosure log and tweet or DM a link. They can also ask me for an email and send that way if necessary. I'll post their response to this thread either way.

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@MattEason

2 years

@mer__edith I'd be very interested to know if there was any actual user research that went into this decision. It's not going to make me suddenly try and persuade everyone I know to start using Signal, it's just going to make me stop using Signal.

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

This is a nice example of prioritising the right thing in alt text. It starts with the actual text in the image, before describing other visual information that might be of interest but isn't as important as the text.

RNIB

@RNIB

8 months

Vision is a spectrum, and every blind or partially sighted person experiences and sees the world differently. Here’s how Lisa describes her life with nystagmus. How would you describe your level of vision? #SeeThePerson

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Matt Eason

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8 months

You'll also eventually want to change the image to a square aspect ratio (especially if you add in things like logos in the corners) but at the moment showing the headline and making the link accesssible is more important than less-than-perfect cropping

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@MattEason

1 year

@ukhomeoffice As others have said, here's the full video: I've also produced a transcript as that may be easier for some people to access. @ukhomeoffice feel free to share so that people can decide for themselves whether @FreefromTorture misrepresented anything.

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1 year

I've started building a Vue 3 component library for the Design System/GOV.UK Frontend. It's very very early (but look! buttons!) but I'm going to develop in the open to keep myself accountable @GOVDesignSystem @GDSTeam

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@MattEason

2 years

@fesshole Must be hard to use a keyboard with hooves

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@MattEason

2 years

@Anthony54296548 @metpoliceuk Hello Firstname Bunchofnumbers, here's the ICO's guidance explaining that FOI requests made on social media are completely valid 🍩

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@MattEason

3 years

@fesshole The combination of "well-dressed" and "there to fix a computer" should've been your first clue

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@MattEason

5 months

I'm very happy this is finally out - I've been working with @RNIB to automate their annual Braille Name Generator for #WorldBrailleDay . Reply to their post with your name to see how it's written in braille (Thread, 1 of 6)

RNIB

@RNIB

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Today is #WorldBrailleDay ! And to celebrate, we’re bringing back our popular Braille Name Generator! How does it work? Reply with your first name by 2pm and we’ll reply with a graphic with your name in Braille for you to share.

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Matt Eason

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8 months

Uhh hang on a minute. Why does the top tweet here have a link preview like the mockup I posted but the bottom one doesn't? Digging into it now...

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

2 years

@BlondeHistorian The alt badge is great. I hope it raises awareness and gets more people adding descriptions. I released @UKGovAltBot yesterday, which is following all government deparments and cabinet ministers (and councils soon) and highlights when they're posting without alt text

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@MattEason

2 years

@Kathbum @joelycett Absolute travesty that they didn't use this photo. It was right there. What has journalism come to?

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2 years

@fesshole They're both paramedics

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Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

I'm on actual grown up Radio 4 tonight talking about this and how firing your whole accessibility team might make your platform less accessible?!?! They'll also be talking to disabled people who have been personally affected In Touch tonight at 8.40

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, U-Turn on Rail Ticket Office Closures

The government cancels their plans to scrap ticketing offices at train stations in England

www.bbc.co.uk

Matt Eason

@MattEason

8 months

The X/Twitter update to remove headlines from link previews has also completely broken their accessibility. The link/image can't be tabbed to with the keyboard, and it's been totally hidden from screen readers. Here's how to make your links accessible until it's fixed (thread)

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