Speaker and Designer
Helping you understand accessibility better.
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,
Chalk Connect,
D&AD Festival 2024,
De La Rue,
DigiFest 2025,
Econsultancy CX Live 2022,
Graphite Digital,
International Rescue Committee (IRC),
KAPLAN international,
Limpsfield Grange School,
Lloyds banking group,
Ministry of Justice,
HM Courts and Tribunal Services,
The Era of Engagement 2024 (Manifesto),
The Future is ND,
Sightsavers,
Wordpress Accessibility Day 2025,
UAL: London College of Communication,
Unicef UK.
List includes independent speaker engagements as well as representing BIMA and Sightsavers.
Adlib,
Autumn Live,
BIMA,
Bristol Creative Industries,
Chalk Connect,
Creative Review,
Econsultancy,
Elephant magazine.
Articles
Articles, interviews, and features
Conversations
People I’m learning from
Owen Mathers,
El Willard,
Alex Hughes,
Colin Grist,
Joel Marlinarson,
Ian Roberts,
Nathan Roberts,
Vivian Wall,
Natalie Mepham,
Alex Read,
Phil Cole,
Trina Moore Pervall,
Olivia Spring,
David Taylor,
Gemma Helyer,
Kim Alban,
Bryn Frere-Smith,
Izzy Grace,
Miguel M,
Jadene Aderonmu,
Hannah and Sophie,
Bern Ruiz,
Becky Ferraro,
Jess Robson.