Sarah Fossheim's guest appearances

Sarah Fossheim

Data Stories

CodePen Radio

Adam Argyle

Jessica Hullman

Robert Kosara

Michael Gonchar

Sharon Hessney

Scott Murray

Hans Rosling

Chris Smith

Scott McCloud

Ben Wellington

Manuel Lima

Michal Migurski

Marian Dörk

Ben Shneiderman

Matt Daniels

OwlTail

I got to talk to Sarah Fossheim this week! One of the impressive things that Sarah does is near photograph-quality recreations of iconic old technology in HTML &amp; CSS. I enjoyed the fact that neither of us quite totally knows what some of these machines even did, but appreciate their incredible aesthetics. Perhaps my favorite part of the conversation was emphasizing that this work, while almost being a relaxing hobby in the vein of knitting, still levels up one's CSS ability. Sarah got me thinking that it's not just CSS, but perhaps equally or more importantly HTML ability, the ability to break down sections into components and think about how smaller parts become a whole, just like any other website work.  Time Jumps Sponsor: Retool Custom dashboards, admin panels, CRUD apps—build any internal tool faster in Retool. Visually design apps that interface with any database or API. Switch to code nearly anywhere to customize how your apps look and work. With Retool, you ship more apps and move your business forward—all in less time. Thousands of teams at companies like Amazon, DoorDash, Peloton, and Brex collaborate around custom-built Retool apps to solve internal workflows. To learn more, visit retool.com.

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360: Sarah Fossheim

Visualization is a very powerful cognitive tool. I think we all agree with that. But what happens if a person is visually impaired or has other impairments that prevent them to fully benefit from it? It’s surprising, despite the huge success visualization had during these last few years, how little we have to show in terms of supporting this very relevant segment of the population. To discuss this topic we have on the show Sarah Fossheim. Sarah is a full-stack developer and UX researcher with a specific expertise on accessible design for data visualization projects. See for instance their “How to create a screen reader accessible graph like Apple’s with D3.js“. On the show, we talk about what is accessibility and what role it plays in data visualization, how to make charts and visual representations more accessible, and how to get started with accessible design. This is a hugely important topic and we hope you will find some inspiration by listening to it! Links:  https://fossheim.io https://twitter.com/liatrisbian Chartability &lt;https://chartability.fizz.studio&gt; Dataviz Accessibility Resources &lt;https://github.com/dataviza11y/resources&gt; Outlier 2021—Are your visualizations excluding ppl? Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities Summarizing Information Graphics Textually Loud Numbers Podcast DS 075  |  Listening to Data From Space with Scott Hughes   — Remember: our podcast is listener-supported, please consider making a donation! Using Patreon or Paypal. Thanks  Related episodes Listening to Data From Space with Scott HughesTouch Graphics with Steve Landau

<p>Visualization is a very powerful cognitive tool. I think we all agree with that. But what happens if a person is visually impaired or has other impairments that prevent them to fully benefit from it? It’s surprising, despite the huge success visualization had during these last few years, how little we have to show in terms of supporting this very relevant segment of the population.</p> <p>To discuss this topic we have on the show <a href="https://fossheim.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sarah Fossheim.</a> Sarah is a full-stack developer and UX researcher with a specific expertise on accessible design for data visualization projects. See for instance their “<a href="https://fossheim.io/writing/posts/apple-dataviz-a11y-tutorial/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to create a screen reader accessible graph like Apple’s with D3.js</a>“.</p> <p>On the show, we talk about what is accessibility and what role it plays in data visualization, how to make charts and visual representations more accessible, and how to get started with accessible design.</p> <p>This is a hugely important topic and we hope you will find some inspiration by listening to it!</p> <p>Links:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://fossheim.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://fossheim.io</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/liatrisbian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/liatrisbian</a></li> <li>Chartability &lt;<a href="https://chartability.fizz.studio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://chartability.fizz.studio&gt;</a></li> <li>Dataviz Accessibility Resources &lt;<a href="https://github.com/dataviza11y/resources" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/dataviza11y/resources</a>&gt;</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWB-KLXN-Ok" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Outlier 2021—Are your visualizations excluding ppl?</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/nightingale/writing-alt-text-for-data-visualization-2a218ef43f81" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities</a></li> <li><a href="http://cognet.mit.edu/journal/10.1162/coli_a_00091" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Summarizing Information Graphics Textually</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.loudnumbers.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Loud Numbers Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://datastori.es/75-sonification-scott-hughes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DS 075  |  Listening to Data From Space with Scott Hughes</a> <b></b></li> </ul> <p>—</p> <p>Remember: our podcast is listener-supported, please consider making a donation! Using <a href="https://www.patreon.com/datastories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a> or <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/datastories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paypal</a>. Thanks </p> <h3>Related episodes</h3> <ul><li><a href="https://datastori.es/75-sonification-scott-hughes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listening to Data From Space with Scott Hughes</a></li><li><a href="https://datastori.es/123-touch-graphics-with-steve-landau/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Touch Graphics with Steve Landau</a></li></ul>

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