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.


Creative

Mainly visual hobbies.


Recent things


Colour mosaic

A colour chart for digital art and design.

262 colour blobs in mainly concentric circles, from red at the top and clockwise in rainbow order. Greys are in the middle.

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.

A path through the woods, in light blue, light green, dark green and black.

More art.


Srebreno

An old chapel facing the sea.

Pen and ink drawing of an old, intricate chapel surrounded by palms, with a cat nuzzling the steps, a swallow flying and a mountain in the background.


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!

Web content accessibility guidelines map resembling an underground train map. Follow the link for more detail.

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

Watercolour painting of a stark, old industrial building below a blue, cloudy sky with a sign reading R&W Paul Ltd.


Colour switcher and reduced motion

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


Everything*

* not quite everything

Colour mosaic Woody path Line drawn heart The word PAUL in watercolour Transport map referring to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Grey hills and dramatic cloud watercolour Rustic Tuscan building watercolour Georgian building watercolour Medieval tower Cat face from mobile app blog Stylised smiling sun drawing Classical monochrome letter A Carousel controls to illustrate WCAG 2.2 Line drawn cup of tea Cross stitch Jesus Tab symbol 1.1.1 Ammonite Flamingo head Squirrel on a chutney jar Cross stitch geological map Letter having its contrast checked Sparrow on seaside rock Train lines in three colours bird in industrial vent Concentric letters spelling CDDO pixellated black cat Drawn figures in a park The word 'waste' from a gov.uk page Art deco kaleidoscope clock Logo of a girl in the mountains Pen and ink drawing of Cambridge rooftops Pen and ink drawing of St Ives from above Drawing of Andrew and Victoria Cross stitch golden spiral Black cat face Gold nodule The word Outré Old button saying Press Pixellated heart Train shelf and reflected face Scribbly cat Roman Baths prototype kit mind map with bonus Paddington Bear Heptonstall church drawing automation tester mind map Figures in Moorlands Park, Bath designer induction mind map Angel Square drawing, Bury St Edmunds writing for gov.uk mindmap Sprites from the game Xzap Cross hatched letter B Bath map Cross stitch Keepsake Imagetek logo interaction design mind map square circuit puzzle light cubes puzzle Cloudy cube puzzle Message from above puzzle Escher cross stitch Penguin puzzle Cheese maze The word Cameras in several fonts Heptonstall church drawing Lazarus boys logo Leon concert hall drawing Word icons Louis Theroux drawing Hexagonal Escher waterfall Escher's pixel art relativity