Steve Faulkner in conversation with accessibility grifters, losers and practioners
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Sara Souiedan (https://www.sarasoueidan.com/) is a web developer, advocate from Lebanon. She helps people to better understand how to make UI accessible.
2 Oct 2026
Mat Marquis - Straight outa Brooklyn to the Fireside
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Mat Marquis (https://wil.to/) and I have kept a respectful distance from each other for way too long. We shared the existential dread of HTML5 spec development together and he interviewed me (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2024/06/05/doing-my-heading-in/) about HTML headings...
2 Oct 2026
Shell Little Fireside
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Shell Little (https://shellelittle.com/) is someone I have met in real life on several occasions at a11yTO (https://conf.a11yto.com/) in Toronto, thus to me she is a Canadian, but she ain't. Shell is an accomplished speaker and works currently in Gaming Accessibility.
21 Sept 2026
Mike [TM] Smith AKA Sideshowbarker – fireside
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Mike is one of the people i both respect and enjoy the company of. He has been a great mentor of mine for years. He and I share music on occasion and I was listenting to 2 songs he shared while driving back from Birmingham yesterday: where evil grows (https://youtu.be/QfeEcCLMtxk) and first world problems (https://youtu.be/YMRYIRnVhlE)
full details: Mike [TM] Smith AKA Sideshowbarker – fireside (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/03/29/miketmsmith-aka-sideshowbarker-fireside/)
17 Sept 2026
Welcome to the Scott O'Hara show
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Scott and I have been friends and collaborators on web standards work for years. We used to work together at TPG, before he moved on to Microsoft.
article: Welcome to the Scott O’hara show (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/06/29/welcome-to-the-scott-ohara-show/)
16 Sept 2026
Aaron Gustafson pokes the fire
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Aaron Gustafson (https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/) has written and contributed much to the open web and he continues to do so.
From Aaron:
Every day I strive to make the web (and world) more accessible (https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/tags/accessibility/), open (https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/tags/web-standards/), and equitable (https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/tags/inclusive-design/) place for people to live, play, and work.
Over the last 30 years, I’ve written 7 books (https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/publications/#books) (contributing to 6 more) and 57 articles (https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/publications/#articles) with that focus. I’ve also presented on these and related topics (https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/speaking-engagements/#talks) at over 164 events (https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/speaking-engagements/) in 60 cities across the globe.
15 Sept 2026
The return of Mr Fist – Chatting Fireside with Bruce Lawson 20/01/2026
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In 2010 I travelled around Australia on a speaking tour with Bruce Lawson, since then I have managed to keep a respectful distance from him, but no longer. Today we spoke on various topics for an hour.
full notes: The return of Mr Fist – Chatting Fireside with Bruce Lawson 20/01/2026 (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/01/23/the-return-of-mr-fist-chatting-fireside-with-bruce-lawson-20-01-2026/)
14 Sept 2026
Doug by the Fire
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Doug Schepers has been involved in web standards for longer than I can remember, he worked at the W3C for 10 years, then turned to accessible data visualization via his company Fizz Studio (https://fizz.studio/) Doug as always was a pleasure to talk to and I was left feeling better about life after our chat.
14 Sept 2026
Steve Faulkner fireside with Mark Miller
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Mark Miller of Inclusion Impact (https://inclusionimpact.co/) interviews Steve
13 Sept 2026
In conversation Fireside with Web Existentialist – Eric Bailey – 3/12/2025
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Eric (https://ericwbailey.design/) and I have crossed paths in the past, he is a thinker and prodigious developer/advocate of accessibility practice and disability rights. I had the honour of spending an hour with him recently talking about disability, accessibility, politics, depression and religion amongst other things.
Full article: In conversation Fireside with Web Existentialist (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/12/15/in-conversation-fireside-with-web-existentialist-eric-bailey-3-12-2025/)
13 Sept 2026
Cynthia Shelly – Fireside Chat 29th November 2025
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I have known Cynthia Shelly since the early days of the HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 (https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/) when we were co-editors.
Cynthia has had a long career in accessibility, she worked at Microsoft on the initial Edge browser engine, overseeing the accessibility implementation of Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/entry-uiauto-win32) Developed an Accessibility program while working at Starbucks. Worked at Google for 5 years on the accessibility implementations in the Chrome browser. She has recently relocated to the Netherlands and is in the process of opening her own Accessibility Consultancy.
Article: Cynthia Shelly – Fireside Chat 29th November 2025 (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/12/08/cynthia-shelly-fireside-chat-29th-november-2025/)
11 Sept 2026
Robin Berjon – Fireside
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Robin Berjon – Fireside (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/07/21/robin-berjon-fireside/)
11 Sept 2026
Crystal Preston Watson – Fireside Chat 25th November 2025
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Episode 2
I had the pleasure of chatting with Crystal Preston Watson (https://crystalprestonwatson.com/) recently. Despite the shambolic nature of my recording/editing it worked out OK.
Full notes: Crystal Preston Watson – Fireside Chat 25th November 2025 (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/12/01/crystal-preston-watson-fireside-chat-25th-november-2025/)
10 Sept 2026
Patric Lauke Speaks!
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FIRESIDE CHAT – PATRICK H. LAUKE 4/11/2025
Rambling Fireside with Pat (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/11/09/rambling-fireside-with-pat/)
9 Sept 2026
Brian Kardell visits the Fireside
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Brian works at Igalia (https://www.igalia.com/), he is a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (https://tag.w3.org/) (TAG). He also paints (https://www.instagram.com/kardellbrian/) many and varied subjects and writes (https://bkardell.com/) thoughtfully about Web Standards.
details in Brian Kardell visits the Fireside (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/06/11/brian-kardell-visits-the-fireside/)
9 Sept 2026
here comes the GoodWitch
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Being around for too long means I know, have met, or interacted online with many people. One of them being Glenda Sims (https://www.deque.com/about-deque-systems/glenda-sims/) AKA the GoodWitch.
Full notes and transcipt in here comes the GoodWitch (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/06/02/here-comes-the-goodwitch/)
8 Sept 2026
a dose of Dennis by the Fire
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a dose of Dennis by the Fire (https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/07/06/a-dose-of-dennis-by-the-fire/) - includes details, transcript and videocast version
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