‘Barrier busting’ on The Lepodcast
David Lepofsky.
Photo courtesy of D. Lepofsky
David Lepofsky is one of Canada’s leading disability rights advocates, known over the past 40 years as a driving force for accessibility and inclusion. A retired lawyer who is blind, he is the chair of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance as well as the Toronto District School Board’s special education advisory committee, and a visiting professor of disability rights at three Ontario university law schools.
Now, Lepofsky has teamed up with Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) and Jacob Shymanski, host of Audiobook Café, co-host and producer of The Lepodcast and also blind, to launch a new podcast: Disability Rights, and Wrongs: The Lepodcast.
The Lepodcast aims to take you into the front lines of advocacy to tear down barriers faced by over 2.9 million Ontarians, over 8 million Canadians and upwards of a billion people worldwide who have disabilities.
Jacob Shymanski.
Photo courtesy of J. Shymanski
The debut episode revisits Lepofsky’s landmark legal battle to force the Toronto Transit Commission to audibly announce all subway, bus and streetcar stops. Episodes drop approximately every three weeks.
