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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 · Feb 11

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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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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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · Jul 28

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 · Jun 27

🎮 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

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.

royalsociety.org

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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · Jun 25

Latest @desibility.bsky.social is out, with links to a fantastic selection of disabled writing and thinking

www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/busy...

Busy fixing yesterday

Friendship, parenting and the tightrope of disability community

www.disabilitydebrief.org

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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · Jun 12

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 · Nov 18

When times are bad, help people.

When times are good, help people.

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June 🪷 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · Jun 12

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.

Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · Jun 12

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

theconversation.com/antagonism-t...

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

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sara the ninth 💀🗡️ @sarafen.bsky.social · Jun 12

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 · Jun 12

If you’re in Seattle, you can find Mask Bloc resources here: linktr.ee/maskblocseat...

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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · Jun 11

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.

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · Jun 10

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.

theflytrap.beehiiv.com

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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks be to sanitation workers and others who are literally keeping us alive while our infrastructure collapses. 💚

Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

A hand holding a toy plastic trash can in front of a toddler playing on the sidewalk

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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 guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · Jun 10

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 · Jun 10

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 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

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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · Jun 4

I’m so glad to hear that! 😊

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Crystal Preston-Watson @scopicengineer.bsky.social · May 28

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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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · May 28

What if for once a product was accessible, not just compliant, but usable by default.

For once. As a treat.

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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · May 30

This is the important information we’re tasked with providing our loved ones

Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · May 30

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 · May 13

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

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Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · May 12

It’s infuriating how much a short outing and a coffee, pastry, or bubble tea helps my silly animal brain.

Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · May 12

Also the book is called Little Bosses Everywhere and it’s fantastic so far.

Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · May 12

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 · May 12

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 · May 12

Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · Apr 24

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