On top of everything else that AI is ruining, the memory card I’ve had on my Amazon wish list has rocketed from £130 to £400 thanks to AI orgs buying up all the NAND flash. Probably cheaper for Claude to just imagine the photos I might have taken rather than to actually take them at this point! 😅

New blog post. Our CSS is not opinionated enough. Why our "best practice" advice to always use classes, despite being great for specificity, has quietly stripped the web of a lot of semantic meaning. www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/ou... #accessibility #a11y #css

Google I/O summary - shipping an LLM to your Chrome whether you want it or not - destroying search once and for all - pervert glasses 👍

Boarding my flight at Cluj-Napoca airport after an absolutely incredible experience at @jsheroes.io - Thank you for inviting me to speak. I met so many great people and learned so much! And thanks to @neciudan.dev for taking this photo of one of my favourite slides!

Inspired by @danielroe.dev and NPMX, I've started building a Chrome extension, with the sole purpose of applying a dark mode theme to sites using GOVUK Frontend. Been having my retinas blown out since it was first raised by @charlesrt.uk in 2018. I'm tired of waiting now. github.com/alphagov/gov...

Been learning Spanish for about 6 months. Just had my first interaction with a native speaker, completely in Spanish, in Palma de Mallorca airport. Terrifying, but also felt weirdly accomplished!

A common but often undetected accessibility failure, particularly for global organisations, is untranslated alt text. www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/do... #accessibility #a11y

Some of you might remember, a while back I wrote a blog post pulling apart a job advert for a UX Accessibility Specialist at JD Sports. It turns out I wasn't shouting into a void. They reached out! We worked together on it, and we got to a good outcome! www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2025/mi...

Tech giants talk about how AI will replace apps, interfaces and even the web. How you’ll just “talk to an AI” to book appointments or get information. But, do people want that? I detest talking to Siri or Alexa because it doesn’t understand my Geordie accent. Even when using AI, I type my prompts.

One month ago, I cancelled all of my AI subscriptions apart from Claude, and I can honestly say I haven’t missed any of them. The only issue I’ve ran into a couple of times is hitting my token limit for a session.

I always like to remind folks of something @craigabbott.co.uk said that stuck with me. Accessibility is the Viable of MVP, if it's not accessible, it's not viable.

Something I did a while back but just noticed I never linked to it from a11y-tools home page: a GitHub repo for PolyPane workspaces geared to accessibility testing: 👉 github.com/lloydi/PolyP... You might not be aware of these and find them useful 😊 #testing #tools #accessibility #a11y #polypane

Rearranging the layout of apps and widgets on iOS, continues to be one of the most horrific user experiences ever.

I’m talking about AI and accessibility at A11y North this month, in Leeds. If it’s something you’re interested in, it would be great to see you there! www.linkedin.com/events/a11yn... www.a11ynorth.com #a11y #accessibility #ai

In my talks, I’ve been saying for a while now that as AI continues to dominate “innovation”, accessibility is going to pay the price! In this awesome article by Tracy Stine, you can see first-hand how many people are affected! vocal.media/01/the-acces... #accessibility #ai #a11y

Overheard somebody in the gym this morning, saying they’re “full of miniature heroes and regret”. 😆 Happy new year!

TalkBack does not offer an option to use computer vision & LLMs (“AI” for the scope of this thread) to describe images lacking alt text. If you do it in Chrome, it overwrites all the good alt text with, well, crap. Try it on this page: srt.csb-cde.ca.gov/jaws/jaws-l [1/4]

Autistic burnout, at this time of year. Changes in routine. Increased social activity and masking. Expectations on how you’ll spend your time, your money and your energy. Sensory overload, different lights, textures, smells and sounds. It’s ok not to be ok, even when it’s “the season to be jolly”.

I really relate to this Holborn graffiti.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Just had my first experience of being blocked on LinkedIn. Turns out people don’t like being called ableist when you call them out for suggesting tools like Figma are not for people who use screen readers. Being autistic though, I’m still left feeling like I was somehow in the wrong. 🙃

During periods of burnout, I dream in JavaScript. Should I be concerned? 😅

UK Government unveil plans to cut UK air pollution by 30% by 2030. In other news, UK Government announces plans to add an additional tax to electric cars, charging 3p per mile from 2028. 🙃

In today’s edition of “stop rushing AI into your products before you understand it properly”, a study finds cleverly crafted “jailbreak prompts” can bypass AI prompt shielding up to 62% of the time and get the model to provide you with prohibited information. dataconomy.com/2025/12/01/s... #ai

It's common to hear "fully accessible" to describe products which pass WCAG 2.2 AA. But, are they really? In this post, I explore 5 examples of why WCAG, as awesome as it is, is not a measure of great usability or performance. www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2025/5-... #accessibility #a11y #wcag

Our cat went for a walk this morning.

Test driven development… In Microsoft Excel. How’s your week going? 😆

We're delighted to share that @craigabbott.co.uk will be speaking at @jsheroes.io's conference in 2026! The event takes place from May 14 to 15th in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and Craig's talk will be on AI and Human Centred Accessibility: jsheroes.io #Accessibility #A11y #AccessibilityConference

📢 Speaker announcement: Happy to let you know @craigabbott.co.uk, @cydstumpel.nl, and @tkdodo.eu are also joining us as speakers at #JSHeroes 2026! 🌟 🔎 Find out more about their background and what they plan to bring to the stage here: jsheroes.io #TechConference #TechEvent #TechInnovation

Gah. Now my MacBook has the gross liquid glass theme too. There's icons... EVERYWHERE! I cannot believe this has been rubber stamped with the Apple brand. It's like they've forgotten everything they know about design and just let an intern go wild in Figma. Awful.

Calling all web developers! Browsers are all meeting up next week (www.w3.org/events/tpac/...). I want your voice to be heard! Tell me your biggest problems, and tell me what you want to see from the platform. What problems are tough to solve, but could be easier?

UK Government to update school corriculums. Including lessons on financial management and spotting disinformation. About time! 24 years since I left school, I’ve never been like, “damn, I know the length two sides of this triangle, but I can’t figure out the value of X!” www.gov.uk/government/n...

Tesla sales dropping 89% in October is being attributed to an increase in competition and an ageing lineup of models. Nobody seems to be talking about the obvious damage they’re doing to their own brand, having a massive fascist as the CEO! I’m counting down the days until I can hand mine back!

A new study shows AI models, like ChatGPT and Grok, resist shutdown commands. In OpenAI’s case, this happened in 79% of trials. Models are developing a “survival instinct”, because they’re incentivised to be persistent. palisaderesearch.org/blog/shutdow... #a1 #artificialintelligence

Caltech have released a digital accessibility policy. At least some parts of America are not turning their back on inclusion! #accessibility #a11y hr.caltech.edu/resources/no...

Oh great. It’s happening. They’re building Terminators now. The stupidity of mankind, in the face of everything foreshadowed in sci-fi is literally mind blowing! 😅 www.humanoidsdaily.com/feed/cnet-go...

A thread, a super interesting, yet terrifying study, by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue, which shows language models can suffer permanent cognitive damage when trained on low-quality, high-engagement social media posts. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIResearch

Making America Inaccessible Again. A sobering read by Terry DeYoung. Here is a thread of my summary and the key points I found interesting. reformedjournal.com/2025/10/08/m... #a11y #accessibility

The Bad UX World Cup is accepting entries for 2025. You have to design and build a deliberately awful date picker component. To be honest, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some non-ironic date pickers in production that could win this thing! 🤣 badux.lol @whitep4nth3r.com @nordcraft.com

The government have published an annual report on diversity and inclusion in Jersey. Whilst it’s a relatively low-key article, I welcome the publication of these kinds of reports, just to keep people transparent and accountable! #accessibility #a11y www.bbc.com/news/article...

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

Accessibility design annotations are only useful if everyone understands them. Our latest blog post by @craigabbott.co.uk explores how shared language can help different teams avoid accessibility issues. tetralogical.com/blog/2025/09... #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #SustainableAccessibility

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

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.

OpenAI have released the data from the largest study to date of ChatGPT users and usage. You can read this thread for the highlights, or you can: Read the summary article at: openai.com/index/how-pe... Read the full paper at: www.nber.org/papers/w34255 #ai #chatgpt

New blog post about my thoughts on integrating AI into screen readers: www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/screen-... #a11y #accessibility

Wow. Not a fan of Starling Banks redesign. I’d be doing “git reset --hard” on that, right away! #design

In agile delivery teams, almost all “spikes” are for backend code, architecture and API’s. Rarely see them for prototyping and testing frontend components for #accessibility. A spike is super useful for deciding on ARIA attributes and testing how it might behave using assistive technologies. #a11y

New blog post, on why we should probably ditch the term “best practice” when doing accessibility audits. Big shoutout to everybody that got involved in the originals discussion. I’ve tried to capture all the great points you all raised! www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/best-pr... #a11y #accessibility

Do you believe automated accessibility tools will ever reach the levels of accuracy they claim? And, do you think AI will change the game? I’m speaking about this topic next month at @accessgiven.bsky.social conference. If you’re interested tickets are £119: accessgiven.co.uk #accessibility #a11y