<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">First A11yNYC meetup of 2022! Notice that the stream now comes courtesy of  'Internet Society New York Accessibility SIG'. You can read more about that <a href="https://www.a11ysig.org/back-to-roots/">here</a>.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" style="width:675.852px;background:rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="width:675.852px;padding:10px"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="8" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:8px"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody></tbody></table><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yeconomics" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><img border="0" src="https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/a11ynyc0122b-300x169.png" alt="livestream" width="300" height="169" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a>On <strong>Tuesday January 11 2022</strong> at <strong>7pm-8pm EST</strong> (00:00-01:00 UTC Jan12) the <strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Accessibility NYC Meetup</a></strong> (A11yNYC) hosts an online meetup ‘<strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/282246008/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Broke with Accessible Taste: Understanding the Economics of Digital Access in US</a></strong>‘.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">Conversations about digital accessibility are predominantly centered on the technical and monetary expenses of implementation in products and applications. Missing from these conversations are socioeconomic factors faced by people with disabilities that can be significant blockers to digital access more than any design or technical inaccessibility.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong><a href="https://crystalprestonwatson.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Crystal Preston Watson</a></strong> will dive into learning about the economic realities of disability in America and the repercussions of overlooking those realities in digital access.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">The meetup will be webcast live via a partnership with the <strong><a href="https://a11ysig.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span>Internet Society New York Accessibility SIG</a></strong></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>LIVESTREAM: </strong><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yeconomics" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><strong>https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yeconomics</strong></a> (Open Captions)</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: <a href="https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/282246008/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/282246008/</a></strong> (CC)</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>REAL TIME TEXT: <a href="https://www.streamtext.net/player?e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