Polite note to presenters on zoom webinars where there are hundreds of participants. I understand that you want to see and interact with the people in the room but if your webinar is being interpreted, leaving hundreds of cameras on makes it nearly impossible.

1. Any deaf person viewing can only pin 1 interpreter at a time. In a 2.5 hour session we will be switching between us to effectively interpret. Finding which interpreter is working when there are anything from 137-277 cameras in is tricky to say the least.

2. Bandwidth. At the moment, Internet land is straining during the day anyway. Leaving all cameras on uses lots of bandwidth and can lead to a very laggy interpretation almost impossible to follow. It is an access issue.

3. Until @zoom_us allows us to pin more than one person I have to choose between seeing my coworker or the deaf person. If all cameras other than ours and the presenters were off, I could see us all in gallery view clearly. But with cameras on, we’re just faces in a sea.

So please, can I politely request that when there are more than a small number of people in your zoom call please have only the cameras on that are necessary.