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Ruth Starr is an arts administrator and educator currently serving as the inaugural Accessibility Manager at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Cooper Hewitt is committed to broadening its audiences and ensuring the museum is welcoming to all

[caption id="attachment_4439" align="alignnone" width="529"] Equal Entry CEO Thomas Logan presenting at NYC Digital Inclusion & Accessibility 2018.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2583" align="alignnone" width="934"] Fruit Ninja for PlayStation VR[/caption]

Earlier this month, Accessibility NYC hosted a Meetup at thoughtbot titled “Writing Government Information for People with Disabilities.” The presenter was Jonathan Katz, Content Writer at the New York City Department of Small Business Services. Katz discussed how to write so that people with cognitive disabilities can read, understand, and use your content.

Accessibility NYC hosted a Meetup last year at thoughtbot, titled “I Am Colorblind, and You Can Too!” The presenter was Jake Voytko, a senior software engineer at Etsy. Voytko addressed how people see color, how colorblind people are different, and how we can design around that difference.

[caption id="attachment_2037" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Ravit Turjeman, Director of the ReelAbilities Festival[/caption]

by Thomas Logan

This article is based on a presentation by Blake Bertuccelli Booth and Dylan Isaac from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) at A11yNYC. They presented Equality Reflow, an open-source pipeline that converts PDFs into accessible content through Markdown.

This article is based on Chancey Fleet and Shane Smith's "Literacy Beyond Print: Accessible Reading, Tech and Graphics at the New York Public Library" talk at A11yNYC.They explain the purpose of the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, who it serves, and how tech and tactile graphics expand literacy beyond print for blind, low-vision, and print-disabled readers.

This article is based on Dr. Angela Young's talk at A11yNYC, which explored how accessibility transforms data from a static report into a shared story that drives understanding and action.