Matthew Atkinson
Head Of Web Standards at W3C
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Atkinson is a Head of Web Standards and accessibility-focused engineering leader with 13 years of experience blending research, hands-on development, and standards work to make web and app experiences more inclusive. He has led accessibility engineering at TPGi and now builds a team at Samsung to influence web APIs and browser behavior while continuing to co-chair the W3C Accessible Platform Architectures group. Matthew maintains well-used open-source accessibility tools (including a cross-browser Landmarks extension and test suites) and has a research background in personalization techniques that match people to assistive solutions. He combines academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science) with practical delivery across client consultancy, developer tooling, and standards development, and is known for translating specification work into working proofs-of-concept and developer-facing tools.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Loughborough University
Github Skills (200)
metadata10
linter10
webextension10
google-tag-manager10
firefox10
wai-aria10
wai10
changelog10
package-manager10
css10
keyboard-navigation10
bash10
ruby10
menu10
history10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
matatk/agrip
Jan 2013 - Apr 2022
AGRIP AudioQuake and Level Description Language (LDL)
Contributions:6 releases, 133 commits, 82 PRs in 9 years 4 months
crosswordphoneticsldllanguage-description
matatk/html-text-extract
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 6 months
fragmentsextract-text
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