Andrew Hick

Accessibility and test person, Bath, UK. He/him.

I help make technology work for everyone. I also make things out of pixels, code, pens and bits of string.

This site includes my professional portfolio, hobbies and the bits in between. All opinions are my own, and everything on this website is designed by a human unless stated 🧠

Work

I'm a certified senior accessibility specialist, working at the UK Government Digital Service, to monitor public sector websites and apps for accessibility.

Accessibility resources
Colour and contrast checker
CV and portfolio

Creative

Mainly visual hobbies.

Design - web and graphic
Art - drawings and cross stitch
Maps - mind and city maps
Photos
Games - Pandora, a pixelly cat game
Puzzles

Recent things

Colour mosaic

A colour chart for digital art and design.

Select the image or see the colour page for more detail. This poster shows 262 colours inspired by art, nature, travel and culture. Most are established, some are new. They are roughly in rainbow order with grey in the middle.

Linocut: Stanton Woods

Stanton Woods, Suffolk, in spring. Not really a painting, but my first "proper" attempt at a reduction linocut.

More art.

Srebreno

An old chapel facing the sea.

Service Design Bristol presentation

Presentation: Making services accessible, accessibly

For Service Design Bristol, January 2025. What good - and bad - accessibility look like, why it can't "just be fixed with AI", ways to build in accessibility from the start, and decoding the accessibility regulations. Photo: James Reece

Andrew presenting a slide reading: Why don't we just fix it with AI?

WCAG 2.2 map by theme

German and French translations added!

Select the image or see the WCAG map page for more detail. This diagram groups all the success criteria from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 levels A and AA, by practical theme for testing.

Other versions:

R&W Paul abandoned silo, Ipswich

Colour switcher and reduced motion

A couple of overdue tweaks to improve the accessibility of the site.

There's now a colour scheme switcher in the menu for light, dark and low contrast modes. Bonus points if you can tell what the low contrast version is inspired by. Thanks to Elvis Ansima and Stephanie Eckles for the clearly-explained code!
Added support for reduced motion, so if you've set your device to reduce motion where possible, you won't get the moving lines when you load each page.