Sarah Fossheim
Independent Front-end Consultant & Accessibility Specialist at Ethical Design Guide
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolSarah Fossheim is an independent front-end consultant and accessibility specialist based in Oslo with a decade of experience building inclusive, data-heavy web interfaces. She combines front-end engineering (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Eleventy) with UX research and ethical design to deliver WCAG-conscious products, dataviz, and prototypes. Sarah helps organizations through hands-on accessibility engineering, detailed reviews and strategy, and tailored training—often producing internal guidelines and practical fixes that teams can maintain. Her background spans edtech and biotech, where she translated complex datasets into intuitive visualizations while collaborating with data scientists and researchers. She founded the Ethical Design Guide to amplify non-harmful design practices, reflecting a sustained focus on the politics and ethics of technology. Clients hire her for projects that sit at the intersection of engineering, design and accessibility, where she often designs directly with code.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Devine - Digital Design and Development, Bachelor’s Degree, Devine - Digital Design and Development at Devine - KASK Conservatorium HoGent HowestHigh school, Latin-Mathematics 8, High school, Latin-Mathematics 8 at Sint-Jozef Ternat
Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, German
Github Skills (30)
css-grid9
http-archive9
nodejs9
survey9
vulcan9
api8
eleventy8
fundamentals8
site-generator7
javascript7
static-site7
graphql6
graphql-js6
react6
open-source6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sarahfossheim/fossheim-io
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:132 commits, 4 PRs, 119 pushes in 11 months
sarahfossheim/ethicaldesign.guide
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Ethical Design Guide is a directory of learning resources and tools for creating more inclusive products.
Contributions:130 commits, 4 PRs, 125 pushes in 1 year 9 months
fundamentalslearning-resourcesdesign-guidedirectorydesign-system
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