Monday, 2. December 2024
Work with me?
I help companies build accessible and inclusive products, through (dataviz) accessibility reviews, training and advisory sessions, mitigation work and implementation.
Interested in collaborating?
collab@fossheim.io.
My next availability is in January 2026.
About me
Hi! I'm Sarah Fossheim (they/them), and I work independently as an accessibility specialist, front-end developer and inclusive designer in my own one-person accessibility agency.
I have a strong interest in dataviz accessibility, and you may also have come across my blog, CSS drawings, photography, or collection of ethical design resources.
My work
Since going freelance 2021, I mainly focus on accessibility, to which I take a holistic approach. Depending on what the project needs, I can perform:
- High-level accessibility reviews to understand areas for improvement
- Detailed and informative (dataviz and web) accessibility audits, focused on best-practices, WCAG compliance, and practical next steps
- Ongoing feature reviews
- Accessibility strategy and planning
- Training, workshops, ongoing drop-in review sessions
- Implementing accessibility improvements and bugfixes
- Developing accessible products and features
My clients
During the past years, I have worked on accessibility with companies like FINN.no, WHO (through Kore and Truth & Beauty), Inspera, and GreenInfo.
I have delivered sessions for amongst others Hyper Island, Oda, and Graphic Hunters, spoke at conferences such as SmashingConf, axe-con and Outlier, and contributed with an essay about screen reader accessibility to the Do No Harm Guide on Centering Accessibility In Data Visualizations.
I also take on creative coding and front-end consulting projects, like building user-friendly websites, prototypes, and dashboards, where accessibility and user experience are an important focus. I have worked together with companies like Vibbio, HTTPArchive, and reMarkable on projects like this.
Collaborate?
If you have a project that you think might fit me, you can reach out through collab@fossheim.io or LinkedIn, or read more about my offering.
Technologies
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- D3.js
- Sanity
- Eleventy
- Next.js
I'm available for
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Accessibility reviews.
Don't know if your products or data visualizations are accessible? What's needed to move in a more inclusive direction? How to become WCAG compliant?
I can do a detailed or high-level accessibility review, and based on the outcomes suggest fixes and next steps. Often this also includes building internal accessibility documentation & guidelines.
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Front-end engineering.
I'm a front-end, design and accessibility cross-breed. This means I build products and websites that are user friendly, accessible and scalable.
I'm open for ongoing front-end consulting, standalone projects, and accessibility engineering. I can independently build accessible websites and prototypes, make accessibility improvements to existing products, or work embedded in a team building the front-end for new features.
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Inclusive design & accessibility training.
Do you want to learn what goes into building inclusive products? Get your designers up to speed with designing and documenting keyboard and screen reader interaction? Freshen up your front-end team's WAI-ARIA and semantic HTML knowledge? Or dive into the world of dataviz accessibility?
You can book me for one-off presentations and workshops, or recurring training sessions, one-on-ones and Q&As.
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Creative coding.
I build good looking, user-friendly, responsive and accessible websites, blogs, and interfaces. I can run the process from start to finish, and often design directly with code.
I enjoy challenges involving different ways of working and visualising data and content, and have a lot of fun writing creative css (eg. creating photorealistic CSS drawings).
Fun fact: I've been writing HTML/CSS since I was 10 ✨.
Latest Posts
Wednesday, 13. September 2023
Dataviz accessibility review: what we can learn from the Norwegian 2023 election graphs
Saturday, 31. December 2022
Looking back at the past year (and a half) of accessibility work.
Talks
I have spoken at public events and on podcasts since 2021, including:
- Introduction to Dataviz Accessibility @ AdaCon, Oslo 🔗
- Practical Accessibility Workshop @ SmashingConf Freiburg 🔗
- Accessibility in Data Visualization @ SmashingConf Freiburg 🔗
- Accessible Product Design @ Product Design Meetup, Kortrijk
- Dataviz Accessibility Workshop @ Graphic Hunters
- Dataviz Accessibility @ FINN.no UX Evenings 🔗
- Data Visualization Accessibility @ Data Stories Podcast 🔗
- Dataviz Accessibility 101 @ axe-con 2021 🔗
- Are your data visualizations excluding people? @ Outlier 2021 🔗
Book me for a talk
I'm open to do deliver talks or workshops about (dataviz) accessibility, queer-inclusive design, and front-end development. If you're interested in booking me, send an e-mail to collab@fossheim.io. Please include some information about the event/company, dates, audience, and budget in the initial message.