I’m not sure I buy it either, but consider mandate to return to work, or even mandates to have cameras on for a conference call. Some of us may be fine with an unconnected voice or text but clearly a lot of people believe it’s helpful to be more face to face or interactive.

To me, this makes the same sense. If it’s helpful to interact with my colleagues more directly or more present, how is it any different here?

Then again I mostly interact with disembodied voices and texts, and am not aware of any sight impaired