Chad
@kitation.co.uk
They/he. Queer, autistic, disabled. User researcher, accessibility advocate. Talks about disability, gender, gaming.
I once got a group of teenagers to stop using 4chan by going “aww is 4chan still going? I remember using it when I was your age!”
(I didn’t go there at all but obviously was aware of it)
(I didn’t go there at all but obviously was aware of it)
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I once got a group of teenagers to stop using 4chan by going “aww is 4chan still going? I remember using it when I was your age!”
(I didn’t go there at all but obviously was aware of it)
(I didn’t go there at all but obviously was aware of it)
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Pitch for @thedailytism.com:
Autistics once more rolling eyes as bigot uses autism as excuse for bigotry
Autistics countrywide are having to hunt for their eyeballs at the bottom of the garden again, after an eyeroll so forceful the eyes behaved like meatballs faced with a powerful sneeze
Autistics once more rolling eyes as bigot uses autism as excuse for bigotry
Autistics countrywide are having to hunt for their eyeballs at the bottom of the garden again, after an eyeroll so forceful the eyes behaved like meatballs faced with a powerful sneeze
Bank customer with ‘phobia of Pride flags’ loses case against NatWest
Mark Jennings claimed Pride-related paraphernalia at bank branch caused him ‘severe psychological distress’
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Pitch for @thedailytism.com:
Autistics once more rolling eyes as bigot uses autism as excuse for bigotry
Autistics countrywide are having to hunt for their eyeballs at the bottom of the garden again, after an eyeroll so forceful the eyes behaved like meatballs faced with a powerful sneeze
Autistics once more rolling eyes as bigot uses autism as excuse for bigotry
Autistics countrywide are having to hunt for their eyeballs at the bottom of the garden again, after an eyeroll so forceful the eyes behaved like meatballs faced with a powerful sneeze
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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
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
5 reasons why WCAG AA compliance does not mean your website is accessible
5 reasons why WCAG compliance does not mean accessible accessible
www.craigabbott.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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
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
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Oh good then you don't mind the tag since it's hardly worth mentioning anyway
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Oh good then you don't mind the tag since it's hardly worth mentioning anyway
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Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
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Last night's interview with Novara on the Rockstar firings is now up as its own standalone video, if you'd like to watch.
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Rockstar Games’ MASS Firing Of Unionised Workers
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Last night's interview with Novara on the Rockstar firings is now up as its own standalone video, if you'd like to watch.
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
It’s been 17 years???!?
Unbelievably, 17 years after its original announcement, Ubisoft appears to still be hiring for Beyond Good and Evil 2
www.eurogamer.net/unbelievably...
www.eurogamer.net/unbelievably...
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It’s been 17 years???!?
Today is hopefully the day they turn the heat pump on and it all works and I can live in a warm house again.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Today is hopefully the day they turn the heat pump on and it all works and I can live in a warm house again.
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
Already seeing folks say, "Well, HORSES isn't YUCKY PORN like other games are, so..." which is super frustrating.
Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.
Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.
Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
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I really admire Samus Aran, because sometimes I too deal with challenges by curling up into a ball.
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I really admire Samus Aran, because sometimes I too deal with challenges by curling up into a ball.
Grant me the confidence of a mediocre man who thinks he can reinvent the brick
Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Grant me the confidence of a mediocre man who thinks he can reinvent the brick
In no way do I want to defend GenderGP but you know it’s being used as a stand in for trans youth healthcare in general, same as when they went after Tavistock
From r/TransgenderUK: The BBC is putting together a hit piece against GenderGP.
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In no way do I want to defend GenderGP but you know it’s being used as a stand in for trans youth healthcare in general, same as when they went after Tavistock
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The BBC style guide is so transphobe-brained that tautology is built in to all their coverage of trans people.
I honestly don’t know how any professional writer or editor can say this is OK 👇🏻
I honestly don’t know how any professional writer or editor can say this is OK 👇🏻
“Ms Brooks, who was 18 at the time, is a trans woman who was born a biological male.”
Aside from the gross last part of this BBC News sentence, wasn’t she 17 at the time?
Aside from the gross last part of this BBC News sentence, wasn’t she 17 at the time?
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The BBC style guide is so transphobe-brained that tautology is built in to all their coverage of trans people.
I honestly don’t know how any professional writer or editor can say this is OK 👇🏻
I honestly don’t know how any professional writer or editor can say this is OK 👇🏻
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A lot of things have happened over the last decade and one of the biggest is how many 'progressives' have revealed themselves to be perfectly fine with racism and transphobia.
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A lot of things have happened over the last decade and one of the biggest is how many 'progressives' have revealed themselves to be perfectly fine with racism and transphobia.
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
You’d think spending the majority of my childhood in a flat with no central heating would give me resilience for having no heating while the heat pump is being installed, but unfortunately not.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
You’d think spending the majority of my childhood in a flat with no central heating would give me resilience for having no heating while the heat pump is being installed, but unfortunately not.
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"Captain Planet isn't real but his enemies are" is a skeet that lives in my head rent free
people older than me and people younger than me are equally ignorant of climate change as a global crisis
Captain Planet target audience stands firm
Captain Planet target audience stands firm
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
"Captain Planet isn't real but his enemies are" is a skeet that lives in my head rent free
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Notable there's not a single anti-trans "women's rights" organisation involved in the new campaign to end the criminalisation of abortion in Scotland.
But there are LGBTQ+ orgs.
It's almost as if one actually cares about women's rights and the other is just a hate campaign.
But there are LGBTQ+ orgs.
It's almost as if one actually cares about women's rights and the other is just a hate campaign.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Notable there's not a single anti-trans "women's rights" organisation involved in the new campaign to end the criminalisation of abortion in Scotland.
But there are LGBTQ+ orgs.
It's almost as if one actually cares about women's rights and the other is just a hate campaign.
But there are LGBTQ+ orgs.
It's almost as if one actually cares about women's rights and the other is just a hate campaign.
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I'm speaking at @frontendsheff.bsky.social this Thursday evening with my 'Ulysses versus The Very Hungry Caterpillar' talk that I recently presented at TechMids. Come and join me to learn the impact our code has on the brain using two literary classics as analogies.
Last (non-drinky) #FrontEndSheff of the year THIS WEEK(!): www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...
Jack Carey & @andycarter.dev bringing the noise with web components, code quality and… caterpillars? 🐛 #Meetup #Sheffield #WebDev
Jack Carey & @andycarter.dev bringing the noise with web components, code quality and… caterpillars? 🐛 #Meetup #Sheffield #WebDev
27th Nov '25: Standards, Web Components & Quality Code with a Hungry Caterpillar, Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 6:15 PM | Meetup
Same room as last month: 12.5.08 at the **Charles Street Building**, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE
Look for the FES signs up into the lift
www.meetup.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I'm speaking at @frontendsheff.bsky.social this Thursday evening with my 'Ulysses versus The Very Hungry Caterpillar' talk that I recently presented at TechMids. Come and join me to learn the impact our code has on the brain using two literary classics as analogies.
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when I say journalism is dead and has been replaced by PR I'm not kidding you.
This is literally a sponsored article minus the BBC getting paid (as far as we know).
This is literally a sponsored article minus the BBC getting paid (as far as we know).
It’s perplexing that the BBC is currently under scrutiny for a supposed liberal bias in favour of trans rights.
Here, a spokesperson for an anti-trans group is quoted, the article says that trans inclusion would be illegal (it wouldn’t) and lists an anti-trans organisation for more info.
Here, a spokesperson for an anti-trans group is quoted, the article says that trans inclusion would be illegal (it wouldn’t) and lists an anti-trans organisation for more info.
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
when I say journalism is dead and has been replaced by PR I'm not kidding you.
This is literally a sponsored article minus the BBC getting paid (as far as we know).
This is literally a sponsored article minus the BBC getting paid (as far as we know).
I’ve told this story before about how my asthma nurse asked me about my use of sex toys when finding out a) that I’m nonbinary and b) I book my smear tests with the hospital instead of with her.
Like, what do I use? Do I share them? Am I penetrated by them?
Not at that surgery anymore thankfully
Like, what do I use? Do I share them? Am I penetrated by them?
Not at that surgery anymore thankfully
Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’ve told this story before about how my asthma nurse asked me about my use of sex toys when finding out a) that I’m nonbinary and b) I book my smear tests with the hospital instead of with her.
Like, what do I use? Do I share them? Am I penetrated by them?
Not at that surgery anymore thankfully
Like, what do I use? Do I share them? Am I penetrated by them?
Not at that surgery anymore thankfully