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Craig Abbott
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Principal Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical. Former Head of Accessibility at DWP. Writer. Speaker. Coder. Wildlife Photographer. Cat botherer. ADHD. Autistic. He/They. https://www.craigabbott.co.uk
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These window stickers do make it a little more tolerable to drive though. 😄
The back half of a white Tesla Model 3, in the read window is a sticker which reads: Anti Elon Tesla Club
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Awesome shot man! I didn’t even have my camera. I got a shan iPhone photo of it coming up over the sea, and then it went behind the clouds for hours haha!
The moon at dusk rising over the sea at Tyne mouth with the concrete pier and lighthouse in the foreground. There’s a steering wheel just out of shot at the bottom right showing a half arsed attempt to take a photo through a car windscreen!
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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I’m endlessly torn between trying to stay online and active in my industry, and hiding, disconnected from the world in the wilderness. On that note, I’ve spent the past week in rural Spain taking pictures of wildlife. Here’s my favourite, of a Golden Eagle in Adamuz. ❤️

#wildlifephotography
A golden eagle perched on a rock. A very large bird of prey with golden brown feathers and a white tail. It has a sharp hooked yellow bill and its membrane eyelid is half covering its golden eye, mid-blink. It has its back to the camera and a wing half unfurled guarding its meal, whilst looking over its left shoulder showing a side profile of its face, and its spiked feathers down the back of its head, almost looking hedgehog like. The same picture as the previous image, but zoomed in closer to see the detail in the face.
October 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Does anybody know how to turn off the new pulse effect in the messages app on #iOS26. It’s really doing my head in, but I can’t find a way to disable it in any of the usual places.

Video description: the messages app showing a flashing effect when you highlight text or send a message.
September 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Wow. Not a fan of Starling Banks redesign. I’d be doing “git reset --hard” on that, right away! #design
A screenshot of a marketing email from starling bank showing their new logo, which is a bottom heavy S which resembles a pear shape. It’s teal on a purple background and shows variants which are purple on purple, purple on grey, and purple on teal.
September 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Lovely fresh Sunday morning with a pop up hide and a camera. Hello Little Owl!
The back of a digital camera. The screen shows a zoomed in face of a little owl. It looks startled by something as it looks towards the top right of the frame.
July 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Yesterday, I was introduced at @frontendnorth.bsky.social by the legend @letorey.co.uk. We joked about how I love to do wildlife photography, but I never really do anything with the photos. So here’s my favourite picture I’ve taken in 2025!
Dave Letorey introducing Craig Abbott at Frontend North. Dave is a a white male wearing a red fedora hat and T-shirt. Craig is a while male with a short black beard, wearing a white T-shirt, jeans and a backwards black baseball cap. It’s in a large lecture hall and there’s a slide on a projector which reads “Craig Abbott” and a picture of Craig’s face. A Kingfisher. It’s a small striking blue and orange bird with a large straight bill. It’s sat on a mossy rock poking out of a still water. It has its back to the camera, showing a brighter streak of blue right down its spine. It is looking over its right shoulder creating a side profile of its face, and its reflection shimmers in the water below it.
July 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Made it to #FrontEndNorth. Already won some Lego. Today is going great!
A lanyard and name card being held up in front of a projector screen in a lecture hall, it reads Front End North, Craig Abbott, TetraLogical. A hand holding a packet of Lego. It dads 20i, Work Desk, 41 pieces. It has a picture of a logo work desk with screen and office chair.
July 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Why have they vertically centred the dot on the new gov.uk logo? The whole point of it being aligned to the baseline is it’s a dot in a web address? It’s Gov dot UK… Not Gov bullet UK! Awful.
The new GOV.UK logo. It’s a light blue background with white text and a white crown icon. The dot is aqua coloured and is centred vertically between the words.
June 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Next month is Frontend North in Sheffield.

I’ll be joining an amazing lineup with my talk “if it’s not user centred, it’s not accessible”. #Accessibility should be positioned as a user need, not a non-functional requirement!

Tickets are £75, including the social at the National Videogame Museum!
A promotional card for Frontend North conference featuring Craig Abbott and the text “if it’s not user centred, it’s not accessible”, tickets just £75, 10 July Sheffield. There’s a headshot of Craig, he is a bald white man with a short beard wearing a camouflage shirt.
June 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Saw these photos posted by @jhey.dev. A hilarious reminder of why we always start with content!

When we start with design and add the content later, we often write content that fits, not content people need!

Or, in this case, it gets printed full of “Lorem Ipsum” 😂

#design #contentdesign #fail
A wall of 12 tiled posters. Each one shows a black and white side profile of ex Arsenal player Thierry Henry. All of the content on each poster reads “Lorem Ipsum”. A close up of a poster. It shows a black and white side profile of ex Arsenal player Thierry Henry. All of the content on the poster reads “Lorem Ipsum”
May 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Woop. My copy of Considerate Content by @rebekahbarry.bsky.social turned up today!

#Accessibility #Inclusion #ContentDesign
A hand holding a green book with white text that reads: Rebekah Barry. Considerate Content. How to make your content inclusive and accessible with a focus on neurodivergence and health conditions.
May 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I find a lot of people, even 'accessibility specialists' are unfamiliar with most of the WCAG AAA criteria. A lot of internal tools and checklists I've reviewed don't even have any of them listed. There's an entire subset of really good accessibility guidance that literally never gets read.
Craig Abbott talking at Accessibility Scotland. He is a white male, wearing a backwards baseball cap, a black sweatshirt and khaki coloured trousers. He's talking in front of a crowd and the slide in the background shows a sentence which has been corrected. Uncorrected, it reads: WCAG has 3 levels. Corrected it reads: WCAG has 2 levels, if we're honest.
February 9, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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UX Fails 101… Providing an example, then rejecting an input that matches the example. If you show spaces, accept spaces!
An NHS website, an input asks for an NHS number which gives an example of “485 space 777 space 3456.” The inputted NHS number also uses spaces which shows a validation error saying “enter a number”.
November 23, 2023 at 11:02 AM
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Finally quit the other place. Removed the icon from my blog. Good riddance!
The blog page at craigabbott.co.uk showing 4 social icons at the top, for: LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky and Instagram.
November 9, 2023 at 10:14 AM