Equipment for Disabled Players

[JRedpath]

David,
Who was consulted over the use of incremental time controls?
Were CS consulted?
Where disability issues taken into consideration?
By announcing this type of time control, you are effectively banning disabled players particularly blind and deaf/blind from participating in the event. You simply cannot do that.
I would ask you to reconsider this

Are you serious Steve?

I'm not in favour of increments either, but to say it is banning disabled players from participating is ridiculous!

The tournament organiser has the right to impose whatever time control they want and like it or not increments seem to be chosen time control for the majority of FIDE events now.