Fireside Chat resurrected

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Adrian has a sharp mind and tongue. They have been a trusted source of accessibility knowledge for a decade or more. Adrian is one of those people i look to for guidance and support on developments in WCAG

Full article: Adrian Roselli – Fireside chat 30/12/2025

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Dave Letorey is a legend. He organises the state of the browser conference each year and works at MDN writing stuff to explain the working of web platform technologies to the rest of us.

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Sara Soueidan is a web developer, advocate from Lebanon. She helps people to better understand how to make UI accessible.

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Mat Marquis 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 about HTML headings...

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Shell Little is someone I have met in real life on several occasions at a11yTO in Toronto, thus to me she is a Canadian, but she ain't. Shell is an accomplished speaker and works currently in Gaming Accessibility.

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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 and first world problems

full details: Mike [TM] Smith AKA Sideshowbarker – fireside

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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

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Aaron Gustafson 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, open, and equitable place for people to live, play, and work.
• Over the last 30 years, I’ve written 7 books (contributing to 6 more) and 57 articles with that focus. I’ve also presented on these and related topics at over 164 events in 60 cities across the globe.

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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

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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 Doug as always was a pleasure to talk to and I was left feeling better about life after our chat.