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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

Originally published April 16, 2015

Getting together in-person to talk about accessibility and learn about inclusive design are great opportunities to meet people in your community, find out 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 local in-person gatherings for digital accessibility and inclusive design.

In the interest of encouraging people to attend, I’ve created a list of all the in-person groups I could find online.

The list contains over 50 meetup groups!

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

Know of other accessibility and inclusive design in-person groups? Let me know via my contact form.

Note: Only groups that have met in the past year are included. The list is updated quarterly (and sometimes more often).

Accessibility and Inclusive Design Groups

Asia

Australia and New Zealand

Canada

Europe

United States

Worldwide

Roledrinks is a different concept than the other meetups. It’s an opportunity for you to get together with others in your community for drinks with lightning talks about accessibility.

Anyone is welcome to set up their own roledrinks event for their community. Visit their site to learn more about getting started.

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

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.

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