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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.

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Mark Miller of Inclusion Impact interviews Steve

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Eric 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

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I have known Cynthia Shelly since the early days of the HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 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) 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

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Robin Berjon – Fireside

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Episode 2

I had the pleasure of chatting with Crystal Preston Watson recently. Despite the shambolic nature of my recording/editing it worked out OK.

Full notes: Crystal Preston Watson – Fireside Chat 25th November 2025