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Sarah L. Fossheim

Sarah Fossheim (pronouns: they/them) is an independent accessibility specialist and front-end/UX developer, emphasizing data visualization and ethical tech. Their expertise spans multiple fields, concentrating on fostering accessibility within teams and throughout the product lifecycle.

They also love to make drawings with CSS, write about tech, collect ethical design resources, and have way too many side projects. In their spare time, they’re a wildlife photographer and bird rehabber.

Sarah L. Fossheim's Talk

Common Dataviz Accessibility Issues (and how to avoid them).

February 20 – 8:10 AM

Data and visualizations are becoming an increasingly more important part of our daily lives: from presidential election dashboards in the media, to personal health data or phone screen time. We make website improvements based on analytics, and scientists constantly rely on data in their research. Yet the majority of data visualizations are not accessible to disabled people, who make up between 15-25% of the population, with a combined spending power of over 13 trillion USD. So where does it typically go wrong? What are the biggest issues? And how can we do better?

In their talk, Sara explores common accessibility issues encountered when reviewing data visualizations, and how we can start preventing them, illustrated by practical examples from the real world.

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