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On February 2, 2021, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled "Accessible Wayfinding Systems will Start a New Era of Accessibility."

On August 18, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled "Providing Remote Services for The Disability Community During The Pandemic."

On October 6, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled "5 Things I Learned from the Accessibility Community." Presenter Marcy Sutton, freelance web developer, accessibility specialist and founding member of the Accessibility Seattle Foundation, offered her unique perspective and professional experience surrounding the realities of working in the field of inclusive design. She shared 5 key lessons learned over diverse career in accessibility and digital inclusion

On July 14, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled "Using Task-Oriented Walk Throughs for Accessibility Reviews." Presenter Sarah Pulis, digital accessibility and inclusive design expert and co-founder of Intopia, described a novel process to use when evaluating tasks in the user interfaces of various information technologies.

On May 5, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled "NYC COVID-19 Response for People with Disabilities." Presenters Walei Sabry and Jonathan Novick from the NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities described how New York City is addressing the needs of people with disabilities.

On March 3, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled "Designing Together: Co-Designing a VR Therapy." Presenter Indira Knight, Design Researcher from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, described gameChange, a virtual reality therapy for people with psychosis to help them feel more confident in everyday situations. She gave an excellent overview of how this project was managed and collaborated on across a wide group of multi-disciplinary professionals.

On February 4th, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled "Designing for Assistive Tech in Adobe XD". Presenter Cameron Cundiff, Software Engineer at Adobe, gave a presentation with lots of interesting demonstrations

On January 7, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled "EdTech and HigherEd: Considerations for Digital Accessibility." Presenter Zarina Mustapha, Senior Front-end Developer and Accessibility Lead at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Columbia University, outlined the importance of thoughtful design for educational technologies for accessibility and inclusion. She shared her experiences, challenges, and solutions in integrating learning design frameworks into the making of accessible educational technologies.

On December 3, 2019, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled "Tactile Design for Accessibility." Presenter Lauren Race, Research Fellow at the NYU Ability Project, hosted a two-part interactive workshop. The first half of the session highlighted design standards and best practices for producing discernible tactile graphics

On November 12, 2019, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled "The Latest XR Accessibility Findings" at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Presenter Thomas Logan,CEO and owner of Equal Entry, summarized the various presentations from the Inclusive Design for Immersive Web standards W3C Workshop in Seattle, WA that occurred on November 5 and 6th