Announcing a Brand New Podcast on How to Advocate for People with Disabilities – Subscribe for “Disability Rights, and Wrongs – the David Lepodcast” Wherever You get Your Podcasts!

Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update

United for a Barrier-Free Ontario for All People with Disabilities

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Announcing a Brand New Podcast on How to Advocate for People with Disabilities – Subscribe for “Disability Rights, and Wrongs – the David Lepodcast” Wherever You get Your Podcasts!

September 13, 2025

We are ecstatic to announce a brand-new podcast with AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky, brought to you by AMI (Accessible Media Inc.). It is called “Disability Rights, and Wrongs! The David Lepodcast.” You can sign up for it for free wherever you get your podcasts, such as on Apple Music. Just open a podcast app or search for it by name or just by “David Lepodcast” on a computer browser.

This podcast will give you practical tips on how to advocate for equality, accessibility and full participation for people with all kinds of disabilities. You’ll hear stories from the front lines. Our guests will offer insights and innovative ideas from a wide range of perspectives. The host, AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky, will draw on his decades of disability advocacy and his thoughts garnered as the visiting professor of disability rights at three Ontario law schools: Queen’s, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Ottawa. Along with him on the podcast is AMI producer and masterful editor Jacob Shymanski. Together, they aim to create an atmosphere that is interesting, informative and easy to listen to.

It is the podcast’s core message that everyone can be a barrier-buster. Lepofsky, Shymanski and the guests will tell stories that include ready-to-use action tips. These will be helpful for anyone interested in any kind of social justice advocacy, not just those important issues that confront people with disabilities.

The first episode is now available for download. In it, Jacob Shymanski interviews David Lepofsky about his multiyear legal battle to force the Toronto Transit Commission to audibly announce all subway, bus and streetcar stops. It is expected that a new episode will drop every three weeks or so.

AMI regularly posts transcripts of all its podcasts on the AMI website.

The AODA Alliance expresses its deep gratitude to AMI for undertaking all the work of producing, hosting and distributing this podcast. It also thanks Jacob Shymanski for his tremendous dedication and detailed work as the podcast’s producer.

How You Can Help

Publicize this podcast far and wide. Encourage others to sign up for it wherever they get their podcasts.

If you never listen to podcasts and don’t know the first thing about how to get them, here’s an easy solution. Just ask your smart phone, Alexa or Google Nest (if you have one):

”Play podcast ‘Disability Rights, and Wrongs!’”

Send us your feedback on the contents of the podcast. We welcome your feedback by writing: aodafeedback@gmail.com

Whether you get your podcasts from Apple Music, Spotify or some other source, please give this podcast a good rating…if you like it!