Devon Persing
Accessibility Consultant at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDevon Persing is an accessibility consultant with 11 years of experience helping organizations build sustainable, usability-focused accessibility programs across product, UX, and engineering teams. Based in Seattle, she has led accessibility strategy and tooling at Shopify and taught accessibility and front-end development for designers and non-technical learners. Devon blends hands-on auditing and engineering knowledge with program-level skills—creating training, playbooks, and guilds that scale accessibility practices enterprise-wide. She’s known for pragmatic, platform-agnostic approaches that prioritize real-world usability over checkbox compliance, and for mentoring junior developers and instructors along the way.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Creative Writing, Bachelor's degree, Creative Writing at Susquehanna UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Information, Master of Science - MS, Information at University of Michigan - School of Information
Github Skills (35)
design-tokens10
shopify10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
figma-plugin10
component-library10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
wordpress9
wcag8
axe8
assistive-technology8
accessibility8
eleventy7
gutenberg7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dpersing/dpersing.github.io
Jan 2015 - Feb 2022
Code samples and files for classes, talks, and demos
Contributions:2 PRs, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
dpersing/netlify-site
May 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:15 PRs, 175 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 10 months
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