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Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup Groups

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accessibility and inclusive design in-person groups

Originally published on 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 sharing, I’ve created a list of all the in-person groups, originally based on updates from Jennison Asuncion and what I could find online.

Over the years, people in the accessibility community have graciously shared new meetups with me.

The lists are alphabetical region, then alphabetically by city. If you know of other accessibility and inclusive design in-person groups, contact me.

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.

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