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Speaker applications for Access:Given 2027 in Newcastle are open. You can apply to give a lightning talk, deliver a longer talk, or join a panel. Applications close on 11 November. accessgiven.co.uk/speaker-guid... #accessibility

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Speaker Guidelines | Access:Given | Digital Accessibility Conference Newcastle 2027

This pack explains how to apply to speak at Access Given 2027.

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 15h

Some availability coming up again ⬇️

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Rarely active here anymore, but dropping by to say that I will have availability for freelance web/dataviz accessibility work again soon: - Reviews, audits - Consulting, advice - Training, talks, workshops - Front-end dev 🫶🏻 Interested? DM or collab@fossheim.io #accessibility #datavizA11Y

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Color contrast affects readability on the web and in print. It is especially important for users who are low vision or for users who are colorblind. Good color contrast means all users can see your content no matter the device they’re using or the lighting of their surroundings.

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 23/11/2025

How broken is today's frontend culture? A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM: httparchive.org/reports/page...

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HTTP Archive: Page Weight

This report tracks the size and quantity of many popular web page resources. Sizes represent the number of bytes sent over the network, which may be compressed.

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I will have freelance availability again from January onwards, focusing on web/dataviz accessibility: - Reviews (high-level or full audit) - Consulting, advice, documentation - Training, talks, workshops - Front-end dev 🫶🏻 Interested? DM or collab@fossheim.io #accessibility #datavizA11Y

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

up to 31m/s wind today and tomorrow 🚀💨

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

also if anyone's wondering why I've been real quiet on socials lately... been in bird banding training all summer/autumn in my spare time 🐦‍⬛💍 feels good to be contributing to science and be in research-oriented circles again 😌 pictured is a dunnock I ringed last week in Porsanger 🫶🏻

My hands holding a dunnock, a passerine with a brown/black striped back, gray/silver face with beige stripes around the eyes, red-ish eyes, and a black beak.

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Starting my online workshop series on dataviz accessibility with @smashingconf.com next week ✨ We'll have interactive sessions, with theory, hands-on exercises, plenty of practical examples, and hopefully a lot of fun 🫶🏻 Want to join? smashingconf.com/online-works... #dataviz #accessibility

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Dataviz Accessibility Workshop — Online Workshops

"Ever handed off this fantastic design to development and wasn’t quite so happy (putting it politely) when seeing it in the browser? Do you have some experience with designing but don’t know how to se...

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

enrolled in bird banding training this summer, already got to band a fierce great grey shrike and a critically endangered rustic bunting. This is along a river between Norway and Russia, so our group also got 45 Russian birds in our nets.

Great grey shrike in my hands, we have a matching outfit. The great grey shrike has a grey plumage, with black feet, black feathers that have a white horizontal band, and dark gray/lack stripe across the eyes. The tail is black and white as well. Wearing a metal ring on its left leg. I’m wearing a black and white and grey striped outfit.

My hands holding a rustic bunting: it’s a small bird with beige on the tummy, copper colour on the flanks and face. White/light beige stripe above the eyes, brown on top of the head. Wearing a small metal ring.

River with a wetland island in the middle, woods on the other side. On the foreground there’s a small row boat.

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Excited to announce that I’m hosting a Smashing Workshop on dataviz accessibility this autumn! Spread over 5 sessions, we’ll cover #DatavizA11Y fundamentals, and how to test, document, design, and develop accessible charts 📈 #accessibility #dataviz Info & tickets: smashingconf.com/online-works...

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Dataviz Accessibility Workshop — Online Workshops

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If your government is setting up concentration camps then you're the bad guys. It's remarkable that even needs saying in the 21st century.

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Lloyd’s Soil @toil.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

i’m pretty sick of the world the computer guys have made

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

went out for a dog walk around town, met a cute small birdy

Big white tailed eagle sitting on lichen covered rocks, in front of the ocean. The eagle has mostly brown plumage, with white/beige feather tips. The head is mostly white with brown spots, and the tail (which is mostly hidden behind a rock) is white as well. The beak and feet are bright yellow/orange.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Microsoft is asking managers to consider usage of AI tools in performance reviews and is considering formal metrics around AI tool usage. I don’t think usage of any tool, no matter how useful, has ever been a requirement to get a good performance review during my career. This is weird.

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Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'

Executive Julia Liuson recently told Microsoft managers to include internal AI tool usage when evaluating employee performance.

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Moved to Vardø earlier this month, loving it so far ❤️

A shouting black-legged kittiwake standing on top of a statue that’s meanwhile completely covered in kittiwake poop.

A red wooden building that’s falling apart, missing planks some places and paint scratched off on others, where there’s a big “make the north great again” sign, on which there’s a lot of kittiwakes nesting. There’s also a lot of kittiwake nests on the ledges of one of the boarded off windows. There’s also a poster hanging saying “fiskeridiktaturet, depresjon Finnmark” with an illustration of a mermaid pushing away two dead fish on it.

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Back under the midnight sun ☀️

Screenshot of the weather app, showing it’s currently 1AM, 11°C and sunny. The hourly weather forecast between 1am and 6am shows sun, and temperatures between 10°C and 12°C. The daily weather forecast predicts mostly sunny, between 9°C and 15°C.

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

If you’re looking for actionable dataviz/web accessibility reviews, consulting or training, I have some availability opening up from October onwards 💪🏻 And! The work will be done from an island at 70°N, surrounded by whales, 100.000s of birds, and a lot of weather 💨🌊 Interested? DM or fossheim.io

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Sarah L. Fossheim

I'm an experienced independent developer, designer and educator. I specialize in building accessible and inclusive products, and have a particular focus on dataviz accessibility.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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xirclebox @xirclebox.com · 01/06/2025

This is how fights start. Stop using divs to make buttons and links. If it changes the URL in any way, use an <a>. If a fuction is called that doesn't change the URL, use a <button>

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Our drive up north has started 😱

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

moving out: done ✅ tomorrow the (looong) drive to our new place starts, and then from next week onwards we'll be living in the northernmost part of Norway 🐋☀️

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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Dataviz Accessibility Workshop — Online Workshops

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violence @creature.gay · 18/05/2025

if pigeons can survive in a cold world that despises them then so can you

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 16/05/2025

Don't mess with zooming on a website. Don't mess with scrolling on a website. Don't mess with default cursors on a website. Don't mess with the default Tab order. Don't mess with the back button in the browser. Thank you.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/05/2025

I cannot stress to you enough how genuinely important this part of our care and feeding instructions is.

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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 10/05/2025

One response to my critique of Figma (and Figma Sites): “Any good designer would look into the accessibility and wait to use it.” I asked why they felt comfy holding individuals to that standard, but not a large company with infinitely more resources. Didn’t get an answer.

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

in 2014 after I started working in tech designers started saying that one day in the next few years design tools would publish websites and front-end devs would become obsolete. 11 years later, code by figma sites:

code screenshot from the inspector: div with the link role, tabindex 0, and href, inside of it 4 nested divs. The lowest nested div has an aria-label "contact us", and text "contact u" with a span containing the s. Something like code sample: <div role="link" tabindex="0" href="..."><div><div><div><div aria-label="CONTACT us">CONTACT u<span>s</span></div></div></div></div></div>

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Currently in the south of the country taking a course in something that will hopefully let me combine bird and data nerding: bird ringing 🐦‍⬛💍 First class starts before 6am tomorrow 😵‍💫

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Some people may be unable to use a mouse, and instead rely exclusively on keyboards, or use assistive technologies such as speech recognition, head pointers, mouth sticks, or eye-gaze tracking systems. If a website is accessible only to mouse users, these people will be excluded.

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

we’re moving to the other side of the country in two months, so we’re selling our home in center Grünerløkka. If you’re in #Oslo and looking to buy (or think you know someone who is), let me know and I’ll forward the link 💪🏻 2 bedroom, balcony, separate kitchen, large bathroom, 70sqm floorspace.

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 21/03/2025

Woahh!! @ashleemboyer.com just let me know that an accessibility and visualization fireside chat (below, 2021) I was a participant in (with the legends @amycesal.com, Øystein Moseng, @fossheim.bsky.social, and @tink.uk) was cited and quoted in @merbroussard.bsky.social's book "More than a Glitch."

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Accessibility Fireside Chat

YouTube video by Data Visualization Society

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Sarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

haven't been very active on social media lately because I've been busy with another project: our upcoming move to the arctic 🩵 last week we finally found a house, which we'll take over in May, and move into in June. This is so exciting 🤩

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 20/02/2025

URGENT request for help: I need to build a case (soon) that justifies the "broader impact" of my research (yes, this is related to recent events in the US). If you have ever used Chartability or Data Navigator in your work in any capacity, I would love to know! Please email (fje@cmu.edu) or dm me.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

"Disabled users don't use my website" is a cop-out and a lie. There's no way to know how many assistive technology users are using your site. You can't confidently exclude a large portion of the world's population that has a disability by claiming none of them use your site.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Make sure that interactive elements that can be accessed by using a mouse, pen, trackpad or touch are at least 24 by 24 CSS pixels. This helps people with low vision and/or limited motor control select the intended element without accidentally selecting nearby elements.

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 13/02/2025

A sign that accessibility and data viz is important: the most downloaded episode of the Data Stories Podcast ( @moritzstefaner.bsky.social @ebertini.bsky.social ) is the episode about accessibility with the amazing @fossheim.bsky.social Check out the data: observablehq.com/@moritzstefa...

scatterplot of dots over time with total downloads on the y axis

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CSS Day @cssday.nl · 11/02/2025

Earlier today #cssday 2025 ticket sales opened. The going is brisk; early birds will likely sell out today. cssday.nl/tickets.html

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CSS Day 2025, 5th & 6th of June, Amsterdam

CSS Day is the conference for CSS designers, developers, spec writers, and browser vendors.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

USA peeps, please figure out how to navigate the ongoing crisis/coup in a way that keeps you as healthy as possible. Do not listen to the scolds who tell you you have to rage 24hrs/day or you are complying. Pace yourself. Have a nice meal, laugh with friends, discuss a book. This will be a long haul

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Laura Wissiak @laura-wissiak.com · 04/02/2025

I'm studying for the CPACC, any tips? #CPACC #IAAP #accessibility

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