Craig Abbott

@craigabbott.co.uk

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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

Craig Abbott on stage at JSHeroes. Behind him is a slide which reads: 120+ HTML elements, 85+ WAI-ARIA roles, yet many people just define everything as a DIV.
Chrome showing a GOV.UK website with a dark mode theme. The background is shades of dark grey with white text. Chrome Dev Tools is open on the right hand side.
A spray painted shaggy looking raccoon holding a fork.
Two school girls. One has her back against a wall and her face completely covered by the end of a trombone. The other girl is playing the trombone from the other end. The girl against the wall is labelled: me. The girl playing the trombone is labelled: any company. And the trombone is labelled: A.I.
A very fluffy, grey, long haired cat. He’s sitting on a newel post looking at the camera, with his tongue slightly out.
A door opening onto snow covered decking. Cat paw prints extending about one metre from the door, then circle round and come straight back
An excel spreadsheet that shows various LAMBDA functions being defined along side unit tests that say things like: PASS, it should return words in lower case. The passing tests are highlighted in green.
The back half of a white Tesla Model 3, in the read window is a sticker which reads: Anti Elon Tesla Club
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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”.
The blog page at craigabbott.co.uk showing 4 social icons at the top, for: LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky and Instagram.