접하다 is encountering something, especially for the first time or as a question of access — a technology, a word, a hobby. -게 says how easily it happens: 쉽게 접할 수 있는 (easy to come across) turns up three times, alongside 너무 당연하게 접하잖아요 (we come across it as a matter of course) and 난 좀 늦게 접해가지고 (I came to it late). It sounds a shade more considered than 만나다 or 보다.