About

About Up Your A11y

Up Your A11y is run by Suzanne Aitchison, a software developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Why this site exists

Working on a project with a large national brand, it became clear how little web accessibility was understood, despite years of building web applications. Several things stood out: accessibility is rarely taught alongside the frameworks developers actually use, much of the available guidance is written as specification rather than as practice, and it is easy to build something that passes an automated check and is still difficult to use.

This site is an attempt to close some of that gap — practical guidance, with demonstrations you can try with a screen reader and a keyboard.

A note on this version of the site

The site was rebuilt from an archived copy after its original source was lost. The articles are unchanged. The design is new, and the contact details are being decided — they will be added shortly.

[Suzanne: this page is yours to rewrite. The paragraphs above are assembled from what was on the original site, so nothing here claims anything you did not already say. Replace it freely.]