Devon Persing
@devonpersing.bsky.social
I'm an #a11y consultant who likes fiber arts, video games, loud music, and heating pads. Disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, queer, and tired. I wrote a book called The Accessibility Operations Guidebook. She/her. Seattle/Duwamish territory.
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Devon Persing
@devonpersing.bsky.social
· Feb 11
The Accessibility Operations Guidebook: To making accessibility work more sustainable
The Accessibility Operations Guidebook: To making accessibility work more sustainable [Persing, Devon] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Accessibility Operations Guidebook: To making accessibility work more sustainable
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The #Accessibility Operations Guidebook is now available in paperback! This edition ships with a discount code that gives you access to the ebook bundle for free. If you're looking for other formats, check out the info at book.dpersing.com. #a11yops #TAOG-BookClub
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Me (chronically ill): I’m just going to lie down and put on a quiet video while I try to head off this migraine
Also me (ADHD): Now would be a great time to look for live bootlegs of Refused songs from the late 90s
Also me (ADHD): Now would be a great time to look for live bootlegs of Refused songs from the late 90s
July 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Me (chronically ill): I’m just going to lie down and put on a quiet video while I try to head off this migraine
Also me (ADHD): Now would be a great time to look for live bootlegs of Refused songs from the late 90s
Also me (ADHD): Now would be a great time to look for live bootlegs of Refused songs from the late 90s
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🎮 Thrilled to have joined
@royalsociety.org roundtable on Assistive Tech in Gaming—exploring how tech empowers inclusive play!
Their report on digital AT is out—check it out & let’s make gaming accessible for all! 👇 royalsociety.org/news-resourc... #GamingForAll #AssistiveTech #a11y
@royalsociety.org roundtable on Assistive Tech in Gaming—exploring how tech empowers inclusive play!
Their report on digital AT is out—check it out & let’s make gaming accessible for all! 👇 royalsociety.org/news-resourc... #GamingForAll #AssistiveTech #a11y
Disability technology | Royal Society
The Disability Technology report explores the potential for data-driven digital technologies to reduce barriers that disabled people encounter in their everyday lives.
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June 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🎮 Thrilled to have joined
@royalsociety.org roundtable on Assistive Tech in Gaming—exploring how tech empowers inclusive play!
Their report on digital AT is out—check it out & let’s make gaming accessible for all! 👇 royalsociety.org/news-resourc... #GamingForAll #AssistiveTech #a11y
@royalsociety.org roundtable on Assistive Tech in Gaming—exploring how tech empowers inclusive play!
Their report on digital AT is out—check it out & let’s make gaming accessible for all! 👇 royalsociety.org/news-resourc... #GamingForAll #AssistiveTech #a11y
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Global disability discussions, with everything from friendship and health to the tightrope of disability community.
With @francesryan.bsky.social, @thetattooedjew.com @johnharris1969.bsky.social @inclusioneurope.bsky.social @afropersonnage.ch @devonpersing.bsky.social @blondehistorian.bsky.social
With @francesryan.bsky.social, @thetattooedjew.com @johnharris1969.bsky.social @inclusioneurope.bsky.social @afropersonnage.ch @devonpersing.bsky.social @blondehistorian.bsky.social
Latest @desibility.bsky.social is out, with links to a fantastic selection of disabled writing and thinking
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Busy fixing yesterday
Friendship, parenting and the tightrope of disability community
www.disabilitydebrief.org
June 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Global disability discussions, with everything from friendship and health to the tightrope of disability community.
With @francesryan.bsky.social, @thetattooedjew.com @johnharris1969.bsky.social @inclusioneurope.bsky.social @afropersonnage.ch @devonpersing.bsky.social @blondehistorian.bsky.social
With @francesryan.bsky.social, @thetattooedjew.com @johnharris1969.bsky.social @inclusioneurope.bsky.social @afropersonnage.ch @devonpersing.bsky.social @blondehistorian.bsky.social
I'm so glad to finally be able to tell you about this book, which I had the privilege of reading early! It's the resource I've always wanted to point to when I get asked questions about doing user research with disabled folks. www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-book...
Quality Printed Books on Front-End, Design, UX, Accessibility — Smashing Magazine
Make your UX research inclusive. Learn how to recruit, plan, and design with disabled participants in mind.
Print shipping in August 2025. eBook available for download later this summer. Written by Dr...
www.smashingmagazine.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I'm so glad to finally be able to tell you about this book, which I had the privilege of reading early! It's the resource I've always wanted to point to when I get asked questions about doing user research with disabled folks. www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-book...
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Something I wish liberals - and, for that matter, a lot of leftists - would internalize:
The goal is not to out-argue, disprove, fact-check, debate, or point out the inconsistencies or hypocrisies of fascists.
The goal is to defeat them.
The goal is not to out-argue, disprove, fact-check, debate, or point out the inconsistencies or hypocrisies of fascists.
The goal is to defeat them.
June 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Something I wish liberals - and, for that matter, a lot of leftists - would internalize:
The goal is not to out-argue, disprove, fact-check, debate, or point out the inconsistencies or hypocrisies of fascists.
The goal is to defeat them.
The goal is not to out-argue, disprove, fact-check, debate, or point out the inconsistencies or hypocrisies of fascists.
The goal is to defeat them.
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When times are bad, help people.
When times are good, help people.
When times are good, help people.
November 18, 2024 at 9:41 PM
When times are bad, help people.
When times are good, help people.
When times are good, help people.
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As an autistic trans person, this has been clear to me for a long time.
These people are extremely uncomfortable with happy, weird little guys existing.
These people are extremely uncomfortable with happy, weird little guys existing.
I think this is something I've missed when talking about why the far right values attacking trans people so highly. It's not just that it radicalises people and teaches them anti human rights arguments, it's that it literally cultivates authoritarian thinking
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Antagonism to transgender rights is tied to the authoritarian desire for social conformity – not just partisan affiliation
Authoritarian attitudes – the desire for social conformity and an aversion to difference – play an important role in Americans’ willingness to restrict transgender rights.
theconversation.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
As an autistic trans person, this has been clear to me for a long time.
These people are extremely uncomfortable with happy, weird little guys existing.
These people are extremely uncomfortable with happy, weird little guys existing.
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Craft is something they are trying to take from you. Do not let them. Hold it with clawing fingers tightly against your beating heart and do not let it wilt.
June 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Craft is something they are trying to take from you. Do not let them. Hold it with clawing fingers tightly against your beating heart and do not let it wilt.
If you’re in Seattle, you can find Mask Bloc resources here: linktr.ee/maskblocseat...
June 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
If you’re in Seattle, you can find Mask Bloc resources here: linktr.ee/maskblocseat...
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I really appreciated this piece on queer cohousing, including the acknowledgement that it's out of reach financially for the majority of people. It sounds like a dream and I wish it was more accessible.
HAPPY MOTHERFUCKIN' PRIDE! For our free post this month, we have @tinavasquez.bsky.social's on the ground report about North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over.
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‘Take Care of Your Own, As Long As You Can’
For Pride month, The Flytrap visited Durham, North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I really appreciated this piece on queer cohousing, including the acknowledgement that it's out of reach financially for the majority of people. It sounds like a dream and I wish it was more accessible.
Thanks be to sanitation workers and others who are literally keeping us alive while our infrastructure collapses. 💚
in my city which is apparently in a state of extended military occupation due to extreme and widespread unrest a really kind sanitation worker saw me sitting out front with my kids and gave them free toy trash cans and we talked about recycling
June 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Thanks be to sanitation workers and others who are literally keeping us alive while our infrastructure collapses. 💚
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Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did”
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-do...
Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas.
#accessibility #a11y #UX
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-do...
Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas.
#accessibility #a11y #UX
I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who m...
adrianroselli.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did”
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-do...
Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas.
#accessibility #a11y #UX
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-do...
Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas.
#accessibility #a11y #UX
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I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket
June 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket
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Tech companies will tell you to not bring politics to work. Then do this.
Airbnb is spending $1M in ads to attack opponents of Cuomo for not supporting short-term rentals.
Whether you're pro or anti-Airbnb, they shouldn't influence elections.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Airbnb is spending $1M in ads to attack opponents of Cuomo for not supporting short-term rentals.
Whether you're pro or anti-Airbnb, they shouldn't influence elections.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Airbnb attacks New York mayoral candidates in $1M digital ad spend
The tech giant is going after Mamdani, Stringer and Lander — which only helps Cuomo.
www.politico.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Tech companies will tell you to not bring politics to work. Then do this.
Airbnb is spending $1M in ads to attack opponents of Cuomo for not supporting short-term rentals.
Whether you're pro or anti-Airbnb, they shouldn't influence elections.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Airbnb is spending $1M in ads to attack opponents of Cuomo for not supporting short-term rentals.
Whether you're pro or anti-Airbnb, they shouldn't influence elections.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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No one is just their disability. Culture, socioeconomic status, location,etc are a part of the disability experience. This carries over into accessibility. It's important to think about when addressing access barriers. It's important to have voices in the field that aren't the usual seen in tech.
May 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
No one is just their disability. Culture, socioeconomic status, location,etc are a part of the disability experience. This carries over into accessibility. It's important to think about when addressing access barriers. It's important to have voices in the field that aren't the usual seen in tech.
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What if for once a product was accessible, not just compliant, but usable by default.
For once. As a treat.
For once. As a treat.
May 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
What if for once a product was accessible, not just compliant, but usable by default.
For once. As a treat.
For once. As a treat.
Not sure who at the CSS working group was responsible for making Dark Reader in Firefox trigger Nightmare Party Mode?
May 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Not sure who at the CSS working group was responsible for making Dark Reader in Firefox trigger Nightmare Party Mode?
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40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood
MOVE bombing 40 years later: A day of reflection and remembrance
Forty years ago today, city officials made the unconscionable decision to bomb its own people.
www.phillytrib.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood
Me: [Reading Bridget Read’s new book about MLMs]
My partner: you probably know enough about MLMs to start your own now. Can you make one that just targets MAGA folks?
Me: 🤓 Um, actually, MLMs are already designed to funnel cash into right wing politicals
My partner: you probably know enough about MLMs to start your own now. Can you make one that just targets MAGA folks?
Me: 🤓 Um, actually, MLMs are already designed to funnel cash into right wing politicals
May 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Me: [Reading Bridget Read’s new book about MLMs]
My partner: you probably know enough about MLMs to start your own now. Can you make one that just targets MAGA folks?
Me: 🤓 Um, actually, MLMs are already designed to funnel cash into right wing politicals
My partner: you probably know enough about MLMs to start your own now. Can you make one that just targets MAGA folks?
Me: 🤓 Um, actually, MLMs are already designed to funnel cash into right wing politicals
Any automated tool that claims to capture 100% of issues is lying.
I’ve seen them and even still I have yet to see any proof that any automated tool can do that.
Sorry not sorry
I’ve seen them and even still I have yet to see any proof that any automated tool can do that.
Sorry not sorry
May 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Later this month, A11ySea is hosting a virtual book discussion with yours truly. Come say hi! www.meetup.com/a11ysea/even...
The Accessibility Operations Guidebook with author Devon Persing, Wed, May 28, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Come chat with author Devon Persing about the new book *[The Accessibility Operations Guidebook: To making accessibility work more sustainable](https://www.goodreads.com/bo
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May 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Later this month, A11ySea is hosting a virtual book discussion with yours truly. Come say hi! www.meetup.com/a11ysea/even...
Things that help me self-regulate in the midst of fascism, eugenics, and late-stage capitalism: arts and crafts, mutual aid with neighbors, giving myself rest, wearing what I want, enjoying food.
April 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Things that help me self-regulate in the midst of fascism, eugenics, and late-stage capitalism: arts and crafts, mutual aid with neighbors, giving myself rest, wearing what I want, enjoying food.
Shell is dynamite and this #accessibility design course is going to be amazing.
Excited to announce I've begun the process of building out my first set of courses: 'WCAG for Designers'. If you're interested in learning how to understand and apply the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as a designer, feel free to drop a follow or sign up for updates at shellelittle.com
Shell Little
Senior Accessibility Specialist, Inclusive Design Leader, and international keynote speaker.
shellelittle.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Shell is dynamite and this #accessibility design course is going to be amazing.
When I opened my email today, I certainly wasn't expecting to discover that @scottohara.me had written a Fight Club-themed article about popovers. www.scottohara.me/blog/2025/03...
Popping preconceived popover ponderings | scottohara.me
I wrote much of this back in 2023 and 2024 while popover was still being implemented / was newly released. Since I began digitally scribbling my thoughts dow...
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March 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
When I opened my email today, I certainly wasn't expecting to discover that @scottohara.me had written a Fight Club-themed article about popovers. www.scottohara.me/blog/2025/03...
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Local resources are already being impacted by federal unrest and market instability, so this is the time to make sure you’re working with your local resource distribution group.
Give to your food bank, harm reduction groups, volunteer with mutual aid groups in your area.
Give to your food bank, harm reduction groups, volunteer with mutual aid groups in your area.
March 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Local resources are already being impacted by federal unrest and market instability, so this is the time to make sure you’re working with your local resource distribution group.
Give to your food bank, harm reduction groups, volunteer with mutual aid groups in your area.
Give to your food bank, harm reduction groups, volunteer with mutual aid groups in your area.