I have found a new appetite for talking about accessibility, web standards, W3C, the #a11y industry, web accessibility history, AI etc. I am not the most polished speaker, but i think I do have some interstesting insights having done nothing but accessibility and web standards for the last 25 years… If you or your organization […]

new edition of old V&L design now available on HTMLZ In 2019 in a presentation at a11yTO asked the question Does humour belong in Accessibility? I guess you can work out what I think. a11y Life One of my enduring good time work memories is the Viking and Lumberjack series. Yes we are talking living […]

Design by Patrick Lauke I use LLM’s I use LLM’s to better understand how they work and understand their limitations. I use LLM’s to create software I cannot I use LLM’s to create open source software I use LLM’s to create software that does not rely on or require LLM’s to function. I don’t use […]

⚠️WARNING: The following description is human edited, LLM derived⚠️ Chippendale, mid-eighties: Andy in a pink sweatshirt leans into the camera wearing a pale, semi-translucent mask with a painted-on grin, his own spiky hair rising above its false hairline, middle finger raised squarely at the lens. Behind him Steve is sunk back into the sofa in […]

Dave Letorey fuck facism I apologise to Dave, as I have been slothlike in my preparing and publishing of his visit to the fireside. I do have reasons though… Anyways it was refreshing to prepare the captions with optimistic eyes and in the process enjoy Dave’s virtual company once again.  Transcript Steve: Well, welcome, […]

A free, open source, modern Windows accessibility API inspection tool inspired by the original aViewer. downloadable exe.zip 63mb aViewer moderno documentation aViewer repo aViewer issues Back in 2012 while working at TPG, I teamed up with a bloke Jun to develop an accessibility API object inspection tool. When I say teamed up I mean, I suggested […]

Pic from the alt advice section of the HTML5 spec Transcript Steve: Well, hello, Robert Bergeon, how are you? Robin: I’m good, how are you? It’s good to see you. Steve: Yeah, I can, yeah. Well, as we’re chatting off camera, we haven’t, well, you say that we’ve met in the intervening years between HTML5 […]

My brother John William Faulkner was neither wicked nor angelic. He was a bloke from Birmingham who got involved in the computer revolution during the late sixties and became successful in his work life, then over time lost it all. He helped me throughout my life and hopefully i helped him. I loved him. Lyrics […]

You may know him from Deque, Paypal, e-bay or GitHub. As WebAxe, or Easychirp or Dennis Lembree or you may not know him at all. Now is your opportunity to get to know him a little better! Transcript Steve: Well, hello, Dennis Lembree, my friend. We’ve known each other for many a year. Dennis: The […]

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. Transcript Steve: Let’s start. Well, hello Scott O’Hara. How are you, my friend? Scott: I’m peachy. And yourself? Are you? Steve: I’m feeling pretty good, actually. I’ve lost […]