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Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup Groups

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Fen Slattery at podium
Fen Slattery speaking about inclusive presentations at A11y Chicago

Getting together to talk about accessibility and learn about inclusive design are great opportunities to meet people in your community, learn about their work, and share your knowledge.

Whether I’m chatting on Twitter or attending a local meetup event, every week I’m asked about gatherings for digital accessibility and inclusive design.

In the interest of encouraging people to attend, I’ve created a list of all the accessibility and inclusive design meetup groups I could find online.

The list contains over three dozen meetup groups!

You’ll find groups organized first by region, then alphabetically by city within each region.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic has restricted meeting in person, many groups have opted to go online with their events.

Which means you have more opportunities to learn about accessibility and connect with other accessibility professionals and advocates!

If you know of other accessibility and inclusive design meetup groups, let me know via my contact form and I’ll add them to this post.

Note: I’ve loosened my standard to include groups that have met in the past year. I know many group organizers are struggling in their efforts to organize events.

If you notice a nearby meetup group hasn’t held a recent event, I recommend contacting them. They may be looking volunteers or new group organizers.

My list continues to be updated quarterly (and sometimes more often).

Accessibility and Inclusive Design Groups

Asia

Australia and New Zealand

Canada

Europe

United States

Worldwide

Accessibility Club is another meetup group focused on accessibility events in Europe. Meetup events have been held in Nuremberg, Berlin, Turku, and Munich, Germany as well as Minsk, Belarus.

Any group I missed? If you know of others, please share them in the comments.

Originally published April 16, 2015

Comments

  1. Good list, Deborah.

    I’m surprised that there are 6 groups in Australia and only 2 in the UK (and neither of those are near me).

    I used to go to the the UXPA Scotland meetings, but they haven’t been run for quite a long time now.

  2. Hi Claire,

    Thanks for your comment. There could be more accessibility and inclusive design groups in the UK, and I just haven’t found them. If you find any, let me know and I’ll add them to the list.

    Sorry to hear the UXPA Scotland meetings haven’t been held in a while. I was office for our Michigan UPA (now UXPA) group for three years.

    We don’t have a specific accessibility/inclusive design group in our area. I host accessibility talks through our Refresh Detroit and Detroit User Experience groups each year.

  4. Hi Jennifer,

    Thanks for the info. Do you know who the group organizer is? I visited the group and discovered it’s closed. The info on Meetup only shows one organizer’s first name. If someone doesn’t recognize who that person is, they may be uncomfortable joining the group.

  6. For the Bay Area Accessibility dinners, it’s not closed, so I am not sure why it would appear that way to you. There are well over 200 members, so there’s no reason for discomfort.

  9. Terrific list of meetups. I’ve added a task to my calendar to return here to review the list since I’m a nomad and always traveling so it’s a bit of a challenge to find local meetups on accessibility wherever I go.

    Thanks for putting this together.

  12. Hi Tamar,

    Thanks for letting me know. I’ve added the Bay Area Disability Inclusion Network to my list of groups. And thank you for leading and organizing their meetup events!

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