Devon Persing

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

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.

🎮 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

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

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...

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...

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.

When times are bad, help people.

When times are good, help people.

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.

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...

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. 💚

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...

Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did”
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Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas.

#accessibility #a11y #UX

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

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.

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...

I’m so glad to hear that! 😊

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.

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

For once. As a treat.

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

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.

Not sure who at the CSS working group was responsible for making Dark Reader in Firefox trigger Nightmare Party Mode?

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.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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.