Speaker and Designer

Helping you understand accessibility better.

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Overview

  • Simply helping you understand accessibility better so that more people can lead independent lives.

Matt Roberts is a multi-award winning designer and public speaker helping businesses, design studios, and design students understand accessibility and inclusive design better.

Everyone will experience exclusion, in some form, at some point in their life - with age, circumstance, or perhaps unexpected curveballs.

Being colourblind, having an arthritis diagnosis at 24, and born hard of hearing, Matt often brings his personal perspective into the conversations, talks, and workshops he delivers.

Accessibility and inclusion is about the many, not the few - 1.8 billion people in the world have a disability.

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Talks

Organisations and events I’ve spoken to

Active Sussex,
BBC,
Chalk Connect,
D&AD Festival,
De La Rue,
DigiFest,
Econsultancy CX Live,
Graphite Digital,
International Rescue Committee (IRC),
KAPLAN international,
Limpsfield Grange School,
Lloyds banking group,
Ministry of Justice,
HM Courts and Tribunal Services,
Publicis Sapient,
Manifesto,
The Future is ND,
Sightsavers,
Wordpress,
UAL: London College of Communication,
Unicef UK.

List includes independent speaker engagements as well as representing BIMA and Sightsavers.

Adlib,
Autumn Live,
BBC Radio Norfolk,
BIMA,
Bristol Creative Industries,
Chalk Connect,
Creative Review,
Eastern Daily Press,
Econsultancy,
Elephant magazine,
The Digital Accessibility Podcast

Articles

Articles, interviews, and features

Conversations

An ongoing series of people I’m learning from by simply asking.