Maria Young
Web Accessibility Specialist And Developer at Agile Collective
Greater Edinburgh Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria Young is a Web Accessibility Specialist and Frontend Drupal developer with nine years of experience helping organisations make digital content usable for everyone. Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA), she pairs practical frontend skills with accessibility expertise to deliver inclusive, standards-driven websites at Agile Collective. Based in the Greater Edinburgh Area, Maria brings a creative background in visual communications and photography to user-centred design and clear information architecture. An open-source and accessibility enthusiast, she mentors and shares knowledge across communities and projects, often focusing on pragmatic, testable solutions rather than abstract guidelines. Outside work she cultivates hands-on projects—she describes herself as a grower, sharer, feeder—which hints at a collaborative, care-driven approach to both craft and community.
9 years of coding experience
BA Visual communications, Photography, BA Visual communications, Photography at Edinburgh College of Art
Github Skills (17)
paragraphs10
core-module9
searchable9
drupal9
directories9
wordpress8
csharp7
php7
webapp6
checker6
wcag5
axe5
wps5
netlify5
accessibility4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
msayoung/msayoung.github.io
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:280 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
localgovdrupal/localgovdrupal.org
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Code repository for the main public 'shop window' website.
Contributions:199 commits, 95 PRs, 137 pushes in 1 year 4 months
code-repositoryshopwindow
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