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Sarah L. Fossheim
@fossheim@front-end.social
mastodon 4.7.3Independent 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 
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Joined July 06, 2024
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Accessibility Specialist & Front-end Dev
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spring in the arctic 🐝🐥🌞🌻
2026 and we are still/again using just for changing a text element’s font size and styling :blobcatfearful:
born to ✨ max(data$column) 💞
forced to 🤡 data.reduce((rowA, rowB) => rowA[column] > rowB[column] ? rowA : rowB)[column]; 👹
“I asked ChatGPT”
Well I asked my local raven :blobcatknife:
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 👋🏻👋🏻
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
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
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?
Replying to
@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?
"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.
Replying to
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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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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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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@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 🥲