Who
I’m Andrew, the person behind London Web Nerd. I’m a freelance WordPress developer in London. I’ve spent years building, fixing, hosting and maintaining WordPress websites, long enough to know that most website problems aren’t mysterious. They’re just overlooked.
I’m also a wheelchair user. I know how a single step at an entrance can end a trip before it starts. Nobody meant to keep me out. They just didn’t think about it.
The web has steps too. A form you can’t finish with a keyboard. Text too faint to read. A button a screen reader can’t name. A 2026 study of one million home pages found accessibility failures on 95.9% of them. Most of the internet still shuts disabled people out. Booking a GP appointment, applying for a job or doing the weekly shop becomes harder, or impossible. These are services everyone else takes for granted.
I believe everyone deserves to use the web with independence, confidence and dignity. That shouldn’t depend on how you see, hear, move or process information. So accessibility isn’t something I tick off at the end. It shapes every site I build, from the first plan to the final check. I aim for WCAG 2.2 at level AA. I test with a keyboard, at 200% zoom, and with automated tools, because no single check catches everything.
My own experience makes this personal, but it doesn’t make me an expert on every access need. Disability is a spectrum. I listen, learn, and keep improving.
I also believe building a website and keeping it running shouldn’t be two separate jobs. A great-looking site on slow, unreliable hosting will still let you down. Good hosting works better when the person managing it understands the site sitting on top. That’s why London Web Nerd exists: one friendly, technically minded person who looks after both.
How
I keep things simple, honest and human. I build your site, launch it, and host it on infrastructure I configure and watch myself. AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean or Linode: whichever fits your site and budget best. I’ll recommend one and explain exactly why.
Then I keep it running. I handle updates, backups, and security checks- the same person who built it. Eighteen months on, when a plugin update picks the worst possible moment to misbehave, you still get me.
There are no account managers, no ticket queues, and no “let me escalate that internally” black holes. You get a personal reply from the person doing the work.
Before anything starts, you get a clear, fixed proposal covering scope, timeline, and price. You know exactly what you’re paying, with no invoice surprises. If something needs explaining, I’ll explain it in plain English. No gobblygook.
For projects that need a little extra brainpower, I bring in a small, trusted network of designers and developers. You still deal with me directly.
Got a site that needs to work for more people, or just work properly? A rough idea is enough to start. Let’s work it out together.