Sarah L. Fossheim 

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 Independent web and dataviz accessibility specialist, front-end engineer, inclusive designer and educator. 💼 Open for freelance and consulting work.

Non-binary. Pronouns they/them (hen). Lesbian. Married. Dog-parent to Riley and Olive. Passionate about: photography, birds, nature, science, mycology, and being outside.

Not just posting about tech  

Located in Oslo, Norway.

PronounsThey / Them
Websitehttps://fossheim.io
Linkshttps://links.fossheim.io
Freelancer[email protected]
Sarah L. Fossheim Sep 13, 2024
started reading a book about slimes and now I want to grow a pet slime mold 
Sarah L. Fossheim Sep 12, 2024
Joe LanmanSep 12, 2024
lol
Sarah L. Fossheim Sep 10, 2024
Accessibility AwarenessSep 10, 2024
When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.
Sarah L. Fossheim Sep 10, 2024
Martin from TorontoSep 10, 2024
Web developers. Please pleas pleas, stop fretting on how screen readers pronounce things. Way too much time is wasted on such non-issues. Blind people do have the cognitive capacity to figure out how things should sound. Besides, all screen readers have user dictionaries. WE can cope. Just concentrate on accessibility and leave the pronunciation to the experts; the screen reader users themselves. <end of rant>
Sarah L. Fossheim Sep 6, 2024
Sarah L. Fossheim Sep 5, 2024
tech folks, what are your biggest blockers when it comes to accessibility? 
Sarah L. Fossheim Sep 5, 2024
tech folks, what are your biggest blockers when it comes to accessibility? 
Show threadSarah L. Fossheim Aug 31, 2024
love (van)camping into nature to work on things like this, so much more fun & inspiring than the home office in the center of the city
Sarah L. Fossheim Aug 31, 2024
currently writing my SmashingConf talk from the lichen-covered mountains in one of Norway's most beautiful regions, Rondane National Park 
Sarah L. Fossheim Aug 30, 2024
David AndersenAug 29, 2024

lol. gotta love crypto. I realized I had about $50 of bitcoin hanging out somewhere, so I transferred it to coinbase to sell and turn into usd.

I used an old address from coinbase's "gdax" exchange, which they merged into their new coinbase advanced.

The money disappeared. Coinbase happily told me "sorry, that product is deprecated, the funds are lost on the blockchain."

These are not serious people.

Sarah L. Fossheim Aug 29, 2024
fossheim's birds Aug 29, 2024

New post about the rather unique gender roles of the purple sandpiper during breeding season, summarising two studies conducted in Svalbard:
https://fossheim.photography/blog/purple-sandpiper-gender-roles-svalbard/

They're monogamous, only have one clutch of eggs per season, sit on the eggs just as much, but as soon as they hatch, the female leaves the area and the male becomes the sole caregiver of the young.

#birds #photography #ornithology

The parental roles of purple sandpipers.

Earlier in August I set myself a new reading goal: read one scientific paper at the end of each work day. It can be related to any subject, but to no one’s surprise, I’ve mainly been picking up bird-related reads. So far it’s been genuinely fun to learn something new every day, and on the menu this week were two articles about a bird I’ve photographed several times but know relatively little about: the purple sandpiper.