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
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:
- Map with AAA criteria
- Deutsch (AA)
- Español (AA) y Español (AAA)
- Français (AA)
- Italiano (AA, sul sito Ergoproject)
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.
Everything*
* not quite everything