I'm Andrew. I find what breaks your site for real people.

Web accessibility specialist. Front-end developer. Occasional thrower of very heavy things. Based in Tennessee.

There can be only one <main>.

That's a joke. It's also a real WCAG failure. That's pretty much the whole thing.

Web accessibility is full of consultants who soften everything — vague deliverables, hedged language, reports that take three readings to figure out what's actually broken. I am not that. WCAG 2.1 is not a matter of interpretation. A button either has an accessible name or it doesn't. A contrast ratio either passes or it fails. My job is to tell you exactly where your site stands, in plain language, without burying the hard parts in qualifications.

How I got here

Accessibility wasn't a pivot. It's where I started — the lens I learned front-end development through, the standard I was held to before I knew what WCAG stood for. Eight years in, with stops at Dell and HCA Healthcare, both of which brought me in specifically to own ADA compliance at scale.

Now I run Cairn Digital. Manual WCAG audits, PDF remediation, expert witness testimony, training. No agency overhead. No junior team doing the work. Just me, and the thing I've been doing since day one.

Enterprise
Dell Technologies
Healthcare
HCA Healthcare
Independent
Cairn Digital

Off the clock

I throw heavy things.

Highland Games — Scottish heavy athletics. 56-lb weights for height. 100+ lb cabers tossed end-over-end. 16-lb hammers hurled for distance. Three seasons in.

The connection to the day job is closer than it looks. Both reward obsessive attention to technique and punish anything less. A caber that almost goes end-over-end doesn't score. An audit that catches most of the issues isn't an audit.

What I actually believe

  1. Accessibility isn't a feature. It's baseline competence.
  2. Automated scanners catch about 30% of WCAG failures. The other 70% need a human who knows what they're looking at — and listening for.
  3. "We didn't know" has an expiration date. WCAG 2.1 has been around since 2018.
  4. A report nobody acts on isn't a deliverable.
  5. The web should work for everyone who uses it. Not most people. Everyone.

Want to know what's actually there?

Start with a free automated audit. I'll show you what the scan finds before you decide on next steps.

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