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Sarah L. Fossheim

@fossheim@front-end.social
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Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway.

💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks.

Personal account: @lomvia@queer.garden
Photography: @fosstography@mastodon.art

Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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Joined July 06, 2024
Work:
Accessibility Specialist & Front-end Dev
Website:
https://fossheim.io
Links:
https://links.fossheim.io
Pronouns:
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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · May 11, 2026
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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Trying to use European services in new projects, currently looking into hosting providers. Hetzner comes up a lot. Anyone have good/bad experiences with them? Or other European hosting solutions I should look into?

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · May 07, 2026
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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New client project that was supposed to start this month unexpectedly fell through, so now I have a last-minute opening in my calendar.

If you need a dataviz accessibility, web accessibility, or web/dataviz dev freelancer, I'm available 👋🏻👋🏻

#accessibility #dataviz #frontend

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · May 06, 2026
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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born to ✨ max(data$column) 💞

forced to 🤡 data.reduce((rowA, rowB) => rowA[column] > rowB[column] ? rowA : rowB)[column]; 👹

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · May 05, 2026
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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`npm ruin dev`

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · May 05, 2026
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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Replying to @GamingWithEars@mastodon.stickbear.me
@GamingWithEars living in a small town and EVERYTHING that gets organised or sold here is exclusively on Facebook. Even houses for sale/rent aren't posted elsewhere, none of the events happening have websites, stores only have Facebook pages. It feels impossible to properly leave Facebook 🙃 At the same time as other said, what alternative is there for small businesses, esp. in a not very tech/dev-proficient population?
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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · May 01, 2026
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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here’s another fun accessibility issue I’ve seen a lot more lately, making me wonder if it’s becoming wider spread due to the use of AI to write code:

for regular site navigation

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Apr 30, 2026
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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2026 and we are still/again using just for changing a text element’s font size and styling :blobcatfearful:

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Apr 29, 2026
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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"After the electricity that had to be redone and a pipe that burst and flooded our basement, I hope the car repair is the last big cost we'll have this year" - me, yesterday

Today a tooth broke. Dentist tomorrow. Fuck.

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Mar 07, 2026
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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spring in the arctic 🐝🐥🌞🌻

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Nov 30, 2025
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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“I asked ChatGPT”

Well I asked my local raven :blobcatknife:

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Nov 18, 2025
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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I've been too busy with work to actually write on social media, but I soon have availability for new clients again, starting August 2026 👋🏻

I work freelance with web & dataviz accessibility and offer:
- Reviews (high-level or full audit)
- Consulting, advice, documentation
- Training, talks, workshops
- Help with remediation
- Front-end development

Interested?
💌 collab@fossheim.io

#accessibility #datavizA11Y

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Feb 18, 2025
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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the world is doomed :elmo_fire:
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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Feb 18, 2025
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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A while ago I was talking to a researcher and he was like “a few years ago through field research I found out that __ and wrote about it, it was such an exciting find” and then added “and it’s amazing how smart ChatGPT is, recently I asked it the same thing, and it came to the same conclusion as I did in my research!”

My man, ChatGPT didn’t come to the same conclusion you did and it isn’t smart. It stole words from your article and didn’t give you credit.

That’s not amazing, that’s plagiarism.

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Dec 03, 2024
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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Replying to @frankelavsky@vis.social
@frankelavsky@vis.social 🥰🥰🥰
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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Dec 02, 2024
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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Replying to @philsherry@mstdn.social

@philsherry@mstdn.social

react dev uses spans instead of buttons "because then no css has to be overwritten" I point out during development it should be a button PM tells me there's no time to fix it repeat for a while with similar issues months later I'm asked to "make the product accessible now" every small fix has to go through sprint planning, development, two code reviews, QA, release notes management: "wow accessibility is expensive, let's pause this for a while" repeat

:elmo_fire:

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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Dec 02, 2024
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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Replying to @philsherry@mstdn.social
@philsherry@mstdn.social Yeah I know, not sure if the sarcasm came through in my toot 🫣 "We don't have the time/money/people to prioritise this right now" is such a common excuse from management everywhere. It's infuriating when they simultaneously sit on revenue like that, like they have all the opportunity, just don't want to use it 🥲
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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Dec 02, 2024
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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All the issues I wrote about in the blog post were based on manual tests btw. Some of those were probably picked up on by the automated tests, but a lot of them are in addition to what these tools can detect. For example, several maps were turned into images with alt text where the alt text didn't communicate any actual data or insights ☹️
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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Dec 02, 2024
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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Replying to @fossheim@front-end.social
I'm not the only one finding a lot of issues. When running axe devtools (a free tool any developer can use!), 870 automatic issues were detected on the Fox News dashboard :blobcatfearful: A quick google search tells me Fox News made $15 billion in 2024. Weird that with that amount of revenue they didn't have the resources to run a free tool and add alt text to their icon buttons.
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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Dec 02, 2024
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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Replying to @fossheim@front-end.social
Also added functionality to let me publish posts either from Sanity or from local markdown files. Completely useless functionality, but I was wondering if it was hard to implement, and the answer is it's not :blobcatuwu:
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Sarah L. Fossheim @fossheim@front-end.social · Dec 02, 2024
Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social

Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, ethical tech advocate. Background in front-end engineering and design. Based in Vardø, arctic Norway. 💼 Open for freelance projects, accessibility consulting, training, workshops, and talks. Personal account: @lomvia Photography: @fosstography Non-binary, pronouns: they/them :100_gay:

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New blog post out (finally) ✨ I tested the dataviz accessibility of the 2024 presidential election dashboards, and (as expected) found a lot of issues to write about:

https://fossheim.io/writing/posts/2024-dataviz-a11y-elections/

#dataviz #accessibility

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