Remote access using videoconferencing software is a crucial tool for equality and inclusion for many disabled people who are not able to attend face-to-face meetings and events.
This ‘best practice’ guidance is based on a survey of disabled people’s experiences of remote access before March 2020. It is not about how to do remote access when all participants are online, as happened during ‘lockdown’ in response to the Covid19 pandemic. It is about including disabled people within society who will remain confined to their home after lockdown ends. Many of them have energy limiting chronic illness (ELCI).
