Season 2, Episode 15 – June 3, 2025

A Melanie Minute: Accessibility Awareness is Needed Every Day

National Access Awareness Week is a week dedicated to promoting accessibility and inclusion for Canadians with disabilities. The Week is designed to celebrate the contributions of people with disabilities and to work towards a more accessible and inclusive society. It usually falls in the last of week of May each year.

In this Melanie Minute, Melanie Taddeo, the CEO of Connect 4 Life, asks the question: why is National Access Awareness Week even needed?

She goes on to explain that all of us should be aware of the benefits of accessibility every day, every week and every year.

Day-to-day accessibility is about implementing practical measures, which are sometimes very simple, that really do end up benefiting everyone.

Want to know how, or chime in with your opinions? Keep listening to this Melanie Minute, a feature of Connect 4 Life: The Podcast.

A Melanie Minute is a special segment we produce regularly – or, pretty much whenever Connect 4 Life’s founder and CEO, Melanie Taddeo, has something meaningful to share with our listeners.

Similar to an audio blog, A Melanie Minute might actually be a minute in length, or it might be 8 or 10 minutes. Each segment focuses on a special message, an important issue of the day, or something Melanie feels is worth talking about and engaging listeners.

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