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Devon Persing

@devonpersing.bsky.social
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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 · 09/03/2026
I’ll be at #CSUN from Thursday afternoon through Friday this week! Come say hi. Friday morning I’ll be doing a talk with Andrew Hedges on continuous #accessibility, so check that out. And if you’ve read my book The Accessiblity Operations Guidebook, ask me for a sticker. 💚
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
😂
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I hope to see you tonight!
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Check out this (free!) talk I’m doing with @segdeha.com in February, hosted by @pdxa11yux.bsky.social !
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Looking forward to this!
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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
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Rodrigo “Ro” (he/him) 🌹 @rodrigosanchez.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🎮 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
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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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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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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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...
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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.
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Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 18/11/2024
When times are bad, help people. When times are good, help people.
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June White 🫀 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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.
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sara the ninth 💀🗡️ @sarafen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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.
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you’re in Seattle, you can find Mask Bloc resources here: linktr.ee/maskblocseat...
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@MaskBlocSeattle | Instagram | Linktree
distro & mutual aid for hi fi masks & tests on unceded dxʷdəwʔabš land
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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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.
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Thanks be to sanitation workers and others who are literally keeping us alive while our infrastructure collapses. 💚
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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
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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...
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 10/06/2025
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...
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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.
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I’m so glad to hear that! 😊
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Crystal Preston-Watson @scopicengineer.com · 28/05/2025
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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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This is the important information we’re tasked with providing our loved ones
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Not sure who at the CSS working group was responsible for making Dark Reader in Firefox trigger Nightmare Party Mode?
The W3C Cascading Style Sheets home page, displayed in the standard blue, white, and gray. There's a highlight banner across the top and two columns of links to standards and news.The same web page when viewed in Dark Reader. It's jumbled a bunch of blocks of brightly colored content, covering up the main page content and wrecking my eyes.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood
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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.
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It’s infuriating how much a short outing and a coffee, pastry, or bubble tea helps my silly animal brain.
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Also the book is called Little Bosses Everywhere and it’s fantastic so far.
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My partner: Oh, what I meant is— Me: Oh, I know what you meant, I just know a lot about the details and you’re going to hear them all now while you’re trying to get ready for bed, you’re welcome
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Later this month, A11ySea is hosting a virtual book discussion with yours truly. Come say hi! www.meetup.com/a11ysea/even...
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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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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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.
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Shell is dynamite and this #accessibility design course is going to be amazing.
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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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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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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
If you'd like to attend this workshop but don't have the cash, I've got the opportunity to sponsor a student! Feel free to DM me and I can get you signed up or share a checkout code. 💚
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
From @lflegal.bsky.social ’s CSUNATC, a reminder that if you feel like you aren’t able to push back on the illegal actions of this administration: “Staying the accessibility course is resistance right now.” #a11y #accessibility
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Jessica Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The unholy alliance between big tech and the conservative legal movement. It’s explicitly pronatalist and regressive
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In April I’ll be teaching my two-part #accessibility workshop for the School of Visual Concepts! Join me over Zoom for two half-day sessions about digital standards, accessible UX, and getting your team or org started with inclusive work. www.svcseattle.com/accessibility
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Accessibility for Websites & Apps Workshop — School of Visual Concepts - Seattle
It's not only the law, it's also good business to make your websites and apps easily usable by everyone — no matter what their situation may be. In this workshop, you'll learn the requirements of WCAG...
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you’re at Tech Access Oklahoma this week, come say hi! I’ve got a few copies of my book to give away and some stickers if you want’em. 💚
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Glad you enjoyed it! 💚💚💚
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Thank you!
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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’d recommend Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski!
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Harri @hfrayling.com · 25/02/2025
This made me tune out significantly and left such a bad taste in my mouth. A keynote talk called The State of Accessibility should not be an advertisement for "100% Automated AI Accessibility Testing".
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 25/02/2025
I gotta be honest. This feels horrible #axecon.
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Crystal Preston-Watson @scopicengineer.com · 25/02/2025
It's 8 pm and I'm crying while harshly critiquing my slides which means I'm presenting tomorrow! Yes, @deque.com axe-con starts tomorrow and I'm presenting at Noon Mountain time. No I'm not gonna convert it to the more popular time zones (Deque's site will do it for you) #axecon #accessibility #a11y
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Crystal Preston-Watson @scopicengineer.com · 24/02/2025
I think we'll see over the next few months quite a few companies throwing up overlays in a quick and dirty way to comply with the European Accessibility Act. The thing is EAA says that overlays aren't an acceptable solution for compliance.
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Merc with a 🫦 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
if you start the Twin Peaks pilot episode at 10:55 a.m. today, Special Agent Dale Cooper will enter the town of Twin Peaks exactly at 11:30 a.m., February 24th
Special Agent Dale Cooper driving in his care speaks into a handheld device: “Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”.
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