Ashley Firth

🐙 Global Director of Engineering @octopusenergy
🌍 Invited Expert @w3c
📙 My NEW book "Practical Web Accessibility" is out now! Link in bio.

[Ashley Firth @MrFirthy]

These headlines continue to blow me away. From a few folks in a room to this in 6 years. Life is crazy.

Welcome to @OctopusEnergy, @algore 🐙⚡️❤️

https://t.co/tWfhv4QHZu

[Ashley Firth @MrFirthy]

@fedupfish @OctopusEnergy @g__j Done!

[Ashley Firth @MrFirthy]

📝 NEW BLOG: My remote setup for 2025

“A new space, new tools, and a few unexpected upgrades - after a year deep in accessibility work, I’ve revamped my setup for better focus and productivity in 2025”

📙 Reading time: ~5 minutes
https://t.co/VUoVBFhvsH

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

The UK's largest energy company.
Which? Recommended for an unprecedented 8 years.
The nation's best place to work.

These three huge achievements mean more than we can say. Here's how @g__j told the team today:

[Greg Jackson @g__j]

Analysts declared Octopus’s market leadership “The first major shift… since 1990s”

But what we celebrated today was the even more important milestone… 8th year of being Which? Recommended

Key to our growth is obsessing over customers not obsessing over growth (HT John Kay)

[Luke Littler @LukeTheNuke180]

A dream come true🤯❤️ WORLD CHAMPION🏆💥

[Sky Sports Darts @SkySportsDarts]

LUKE LITTLER WINS THE 2025 WORLD DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP 🏆

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

Allow @g__j to help you with that answer, Tim #bbcqt

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

When you see the Octopus engineers roll up:

[Greg Jackson @g__j]

Remember the lurid headlines about the cost of bulb’s failure? Turns out the govt made huge profit on the Octopus deal and no loss on the whole bailout.
When others banged their fists and tried to bully the govt into a bad deal, we worked hard to create a fair one. And it worked.

[Ashley Firth @MrFirthy]

@integerman @Apress Thank you for this Matt - I'll ask someone at Apress to remember to consider alt text on their social posts, and consider better contrast.

[Ashley Firth @MrFirthy]

@JoyBrooks99 @OctopusEnergy @g__j Hey Joy! Thanks for considering joining. Our dark mode does meet WCAG standards, but totally understand it can be hard to read. We’re working on a web light mode & any emails you receive from us can be changed to light mode. You can also get in touch if you struggle with anything

[Jonny Sharples @JonnyGabriel]

The Rt Hon Jordan Pickford MP @JPickford1 has been appointed Secretary of State for Defence @DefenceHQ.

[Sarah Abderemane @sabderemane_]

I just received my book 😍 I'm so excited to start reading and learn more about Accessibility! Thank you for writing it Ashley and thank you Octopus Energy for the book 💜🐙

Cc @MrFirthy @OctopusEnergy
#PracticalWebAccessibility

[Alison Yoon @aliyooncreative]

Excited about the second edition of #PracticalWebAccessibility 🥳 by @MrFirthy 📖

[Ashley Firth @MrFirthy]

@tmusson Hey Tim! All good this end thanks, hope you are too. Really appreciate the flag, let me look into it right away.

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

In 8 years...
🟢 UK's biggest electricity supplier
🚗 250k EVs on Octopus smart tariffs
🌍 18 countries globally
💰 Billions invested in renewables

And we're not slowing down.

It's an honour for our vision to be recognised in the CNBC Disruptor 50 list. https://t.co/BNiaCQbdgw

[Ashley Firth @MrFirthy]

@Pepperpottys @OctopusEnergy @g__j You're absolutely right Emma, sorry about that. Here is a version with reduced motion, and we'll make sure it's used in any advertising moving forward. Really appreciate you flagging it.

[Ashley Firth @MrFirthy]

📙 TODAY IS THE DAY 📙

I'm proud to release the 2nd ed. of "Practical Web Accessibility"

It's taken such an effort to write, and do justice to an important topic, so I really hope you enjoy it.

Grab a copy at https://t.co/PdZcoNrfDH

Octopus are also giving away free copies 👇

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

✨ BOOK GIVEAWAY for Global Accessibility Awareness Day ✨

@MrFirthy cares so much about accessible websites, he wrote a best-selling book on it. Now he's back with the latest edition, even more comprehensive, with a foreword by founder @g__j 📚

Here’s all you need to do… 👇

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

✨ BOOK GIVEAWAY for Global Accessibility Awareness Day ✨

@MrFirthy cares so much about accessible websites, he wrote a best-selling book on it. Now he's back with the latest edition, even more comprehensive, with a foreword by founder @g__j 📚

Here’s all you need to do… 👇