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.

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.

Some recent things

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.

More art.

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.

San Gimignano - Smoky towers

Watercolour painting of towers on a hill, with smoke in the air, distant mountains and two small figures in the foreground

Everything

Line drawing of an intricate heart with radial lines. The word PAUL painted in watercolour Two lines on a transport map, labelled where they intersect with a Web Content Accessibility Guidelines reference Grey hillside with distant mountains and dramatic cloud Corner of a rustic Tuscan building with cypress trees in the background Painted Georgian building detail against a blue sky Distant watercolour trees Medieval tower Cat face from blog about mobile app accessibility monitoring A stylised sun with 24 rays in the style of a lithograph, with a child's slightly smiling face A large capital letter A drawn in a classical style, with gentle curves and thin slab serifs Carousel controls to illustrate WCAG 2.2 Cup of tea with blackbirds outside the window Cross stitch Jesus Tab symbol Green chrysanthemum shaped colour swatch 1.1.1 Ammonite Flamingo head Squirrel on a chutney jar Cross stitch geological map A 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 cypress logo The word 'carrier' from a gov.uk page Art deco clock with kaleidoscope effect Logo of a girl in the mountains Pen and ink drawing of Cambridge rooftops Pen and ink drawing of St Ives from above The words 'test standards' from GitHub Drawing of Andrew and Victoria Cross stitch golden spiral Black cat face Gold nodule The word Outré Old button saying Press A pixellated heart from the game Xzap Train shelf and reflected face The word 'waste' from a gov.uk page Scribbly cat Roman Baths Figures on Weymouth beach prototype kit mind map with bonus Paddington Bear Wedding rings 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 World cup 2018 wallchart Bath map Cross stitch Keepsake Imagetek logo Bristol map Manchester map manage your water abstraction interaction design mind map square circuit puzzle light cubes puzzle Testing GOV.UK Cloudy cube puzzle Hexagonal hexagon puzzle Message from above puzzle Escher cross stitch Penguin puzzle Cheese maze The word Cameras in several fonts Heptonstall church drawing Hexagonal web safe colour palette Lazarus boys logo Leon concert hall drawing Word icons Louis Theroux drawing sign up for flood warnings Hexagonal Escher waterfall Escher's pixel art relativity