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With Charlie Triplett (Dir. Digital Accessibility Compliance Ops, NBCUniversal).
Venue, 72 Spring St
Feb 03 (Tue) , 2026 @ 07:30 PM
FREE
 
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DETAILS

This event will be online at YouTube & in-person. The speaker & live stream starts at 7:30 pm ET. In-person attendees may arrive as early as 7 pm ET. If arriving late, please leave a comment on this page & someone will come down ASAP.

Important note
Google Maps currently incorrectly pins the location around the corner on Crosby Street. The entrance is not on Crosby. The entrance is on Spring Street, inside the Marc Jacobs International building. It is roughly halfway between Crosby & Lafayette, almost directly across Spring Street from the Chipotle restaurant.

Description
The currency on which modern software gets built is the Jira ticket. If it's in the Jira ticket, it gets done. If accessibility isn't there, a remediation fire drill is.

Here's how to leverage the ways agile teams already work to scale our accessibility work - without adding layers of bureaucracy - & help everyone from design, dev, & QA speak the same language of inclusion.

If you're running fire drills instead of an accessibility program, here's how to actually break the cycle, truly shift left, & scale your time & expertise. We'll cover:

Why having an accessibility mindset isn't working
Existing tooling & processes we can leverage
What are acceptance criteria
Who's responsible for them?
Where to get criteria (AtomicA11y.com)
Helping teams choose acceptance criteria
Presenter bio
Charlie Triplett is an accessibility leader with over 20 years of experience in UX design & UI engineering, now focused on building global enterprise accessibility management programs.

He invented AtomicA11y.com, wrote TheBookOnAccessibility.com, & contributed the Design Systems chapter of Inclusive Design for Accessibility: A practical guide to digital accessibility, UX, & inclusive web & app design.

Accessibility
The presentation will have human captions [CC], not automatic captions. For ASL preferred speakers, learn about the Aira ASL App, & download it before the event.

For the Blind & Low Vision community, learn about the Aira Explorer App & download it before the event.

To access the online webinar for audio description, use the A11yNYC Access Offer to call, or simply inform your Visual Interpreter that you'd like that offer applied when you connect.

For additional accessibility requirements, please email meryl@equalentry.com two weeks before the event.

Livestream
YouTube link

Provided by Internet Society Accessibility SIG.

Location details
The event is on the 4th floor. Everyone must be accompanied to the event on the 4th floor. Because everyone needs to be escorted, please arrive early or on time. When you enter the ground floor, a representative from A11yNYC will be there to provide elevator access.

The building is near several transit stops:
6 train

Spring Street (non-accessible stop): 100 feet
Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.4 miles
NQRW trains

Prince Street (non-accessible stop): 0.2 miles
Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.3 miles
M1 / M55 Bus lines

Broadway/Spring Street stop: 500 feet
Cabs & rideshares can let passengers out right near the building entrance

Accreditation
All A11yNYC meetups are pre-approved for IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC).

Sponsors
Thanks to AKQA, Deque, Evinced, Equal Entry, & Fable for sponsoring. Want to be a sponsor? Contact meryl@equalentry.com
 
 
 
 
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