Author: stevef

I noted with interest the recent announcement by an accessibility tool vendor that AI powered! keyboard testing has been introduced into their product. I thought, hey I wanna piece of that AI easy action, but I don’t wanna have to sign up for a free trial…, get hooked and pay the piper. So I tapped […]

Of the many people I have worked with, alongside and for in my time doing accessibility, I can say with certainty that Mike Paciello (along with Debra Rapsis & Charlie Pike) have supported me the most. I would not be where I am today without the support and guidance they have provided. This does not […]

Episodes 1-15 Nov. 2025 – April 2026 Gerard does Fireside Getting Hidde Fireside Mike [TM] Smith AKA Sideshowbarker – fireside heydon fireside 2 – can’t shut the fucker up Karl Groves stokes the Fireside By the fire with Natalie Patrice Tucker Matt May speaks Talking with Heydon Pickering A word with the accessibility egg – […]

I had the absolute pleasure of talking with my friend Gerard Cohen by the Fireside a few weeks ago. Gerard is one of those people that has consistently championed, and acted professionally to improve the accessibility of the web. Hire Gerard! Foolishly Atlassian laid him off recently so he is looking for his next challenge. […]

A stylish but illegal monkey wandering around in Toronto IKEA HTML in Canvas I am interested in this as I always expected it to happen at some point, but appreciate that in this proposal (and experimental implementation) content drawn to the canvas is expressed in the canvas sub-DOM as HTML which makes it usable by […]

I had the pleasure of talking with Hidde a few weeks ago. We have met more times than I can recall. I can recall the meetings we have had of late as we co-edit, along with Jeroen Hulscher, the WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0 Hidde speaks! Transcript Steve: Well, hello, Hidde. How are you? Hidde: […]

This information (I wrote) originally appeared in Using ARIA I am re-upping and updating it here as the Using ARIA has now been updated and the content removed. Beware: Hiding Content Has No Effect on Accessible Name or Description Calculation By design, hiding the content (using CSS display:none or visibility:hidden or the HTML hidden attribute) of the element(s) referenced […]

I have known Mike and worked on stuff with him for almost 20 years. Without Mike’s friendship, support and mentorship I would not have been able to get the main element into HTML and more importantly, implemented in browsers. Mike works at the W3C and has done as long as I have known him. He […]

Heydon takes a second bite of the fireside. Transcript Steve: Well, welcome, Hayden, for your second foray into the fireside, and I’m glad to have you back. Yeah, glad to be here. It’s been about a month now or something, isn’t it, since I last talked to you? Heydon: Yeah, we were going to do, […]