Sarah Fossheim

@fossheim.bsky.social

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they/them/hen 🌈 Independent web & dataviz accessibility specialist. Also bird nerd, wildlife photographer, and nature enthusiast. Located in Vardø, an island in the Norwegian arctic 💨🌊 Work: fossheim.io

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.
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.
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.
Weekly weather forecast showing temperatures between 5°C and and 9°C, almost always cloudy, and wind up to 9m/s.
A shouting black-legged kittiwake standing on top of a statue that’s meanwhile completely covered in kittiwake poop.
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.
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>
High-contrast picture of an adult herring gull in winter plummage. He has bright white feathers with brown/gray stripes on the head and neck, and an orange beak.
Common murre flying from right to left of the frame, with a fish in its beak. In the backgrpound are 5 other murres flying in the opposite direction, left to right.
Arctic tern in flight, against a bright blue background. It's a white gull-like seabird, with light gray wings, a black top of the head, and very sharp red beak.
Screenshot of the IUCN statistics, data filtered on Charadriiformes order (shorebirds), global scope. Showing a donut chart with red list categories and bar chart with threats. 69.5% are least concern, 12.4% near threatened, 9% vulnerable, 4.1% endangered, 2.8% critically endangered, 1.8% extinct. The threats are (in order from large to small): intentional hunting and trapping, invasive species, climate change & severe weather, disturbances from recreational activities, habitat loss from housing & urban areas, industrial development, oil spills, farming, unintentional side effects from fishing, and problematic native species.
Two razorbills cuddling together in the snow, with a bright aqua sea in the background. The background is out of focus with a lot of bokeh, and the snow in the foreground creates a white haze. The razorbills are small black and white auks, and have a white vertical and horizontal line on their beak.
A kittiwake chick on the nest, having its beak wide open, exposing the pink inside of its mouth. It's a sunny day, and the picture is well lid with a lot of detail. The young kittiwake still has fluffy down and is very tiny, colored white ans gray, with a white beak.
Portrait of a bridled common murre standing in front of a teal/blue blurry background (out of focus ocean), photographed from the chest up. The belly is white, the back and head are very dark brown (but look black), medium-sized sharp gray beak. Around its eye is a white circle and line, resembling glsses. The bird eye is in focus, along with tiny water droplets on top of the head.
Three common guillemots posing in front of a white snowed in mountain, with more murres/guillemots flying in the background. It almost looks peaceful, except in the foreground a european shag is crash landing into the snow, in the most dramatic way possible: head pointed towards the sky, open beak exposing the yellow inside the mouth, and snow flying upwards.
Portrait of a European Herring Gull in a snow storm. The picture is zoomed in on his face, the background is an out of focus hazy dark purple/gray, and there's snow falling around the gull. He's in adult winter plumage, white body with gray stripes on the head and around the eyes.
Adult herring gull looking straight at the camera, with a stern look on her face. Another gull is standing out of focus in front of her, and the background is a blue-ish out of focus color.
European shag walking around with the skeleton of another european shag in its beak. He's walking right to left in the frame, and between grassy terrain.
Kobo libra color, a white e-reader about the size of an average book, with color display and two buttons to move pages. On the screen is the cover of a book called “The Witch’s Heart” by Genevieve Gornichec, and a bookmark saying the book is 63% read and has 2 hours ago
Portrait of a hooded crow sitting in green grass, in front of a red building. The crow has a grey body and black wings and head, and is looking straight at the camera. The foreground is out of focus grass, the background a red out of focus building. The crow is in focus.
Research article about "Morphological changes in hooded crows (Corvus cornix) related to urbanization" on frontiers (frontiersin.org). The background of the page is dark faded blue, almost black (but less intense), and the text is dark pink/red-ish. The text and background don't have much contrast, but the text size is really big, zoomed in to 200%.
Black and white photograph of 3 hooded crows in an urban park. One crow is standing is standing in the middle of the frame, and is in focus, looking at the camera with a stern expression. There's a crow on his left and right, in the background and a bit out of focus, facing the camera as well. It looks as if the one in the front/middle is about to beat up the photographer, with two crows being his bodyguard in the background.
Wide angle picture of a rocky coastline with thousands of herring gulls on them, a small red dot is placed on each of the gulls
Portrait of an Atlantic Puffin, hiding behind an out of focus grass hill on a sunny day. Only the top of the head (up until the eyes) is popping up from behind the hill in the foreground, everything below the beak is below the terrain. In the background there's more green vegetation that's out of focus, and the colors of the entire picture are quite bright and saturated.
Map of the US with election results: each state has a hexagon color coded in red or blue, and sized according to how many electoral votes they hold. The alt text read by VoiceOver is (in Norwegian, translated to English): "Map of the USA, showing the amount of electoral college votes per state"
NRK election dashboard: progress bar with 226 democratic votes and 312 republican ones on top, underneath are dropdowns with frequently asked questions, like "what is a swing state", "why are swing states important" and a map with swing states.
Washington Post zoomed in to 400%: a sticky header and a sticky "limited time offer: subscribe for 15 euros" are blocking literally all of the page's content.
map of the US election results, with the states in proportion to the amount of electoral votes they can give. Each state is built out of squares, one square = one electoral vote. The states are color coded in red or blue. VoiceOver is turned on, and the focus is on Florida, where VoiceOiver announced: "link" without any further info
axe dev tools result for foxnews.com/elections: 870 automatic issues, 808 of which best practice, 57 critical, 5 serious, 808 moderate
Two election results progress bars underneath eachother, one in red showing 309 electoral votes for Trump, and one in blue showing 226 for Harris. Each electoral vote is represented as a square, and the votes are grouped by state (each state wrapped in a black outline). There's a vertical line at 270 votes (votes needed to win).
screenshot of the header of a blog post on my website "The dataviz accessibility of the 2024 presidential election dashboards." tagged with "dataviz" and "accessibility", scheduled to be posted on Wednesday 20 November