The challenges of balancing interests of different groups: lecture recording edition

I'm somewhat amused by the demands of activists at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. They've attracted some flack for one of their demands but that's not the specific demand that interests me most. This one is:

Accessible education (Lecture recordings):

As part of our campaign to attain a more accessible education at SOAS, the Student Union is proposing to have lectures recorded and to make them available online for students to listen. Some lectures already record lectures while others allow individual students to record the lectures on their smart phones. Majority of lecture halls as well classroom are already equipped with the technology, so it would only make it logical for all lectures to be recorded for the benefit of students. This is essential especially for disabled students as the DSA is being cut

Care to guess what killed off the online course material postings from a lot of big-name American universities? To quote the UC Berkeley press release:

Despite the absence of clear regulatory guidance, we have attempted to maximize the accessibility of free, online content that we have made available to the public. Nevertheless, the Department of Justice has recently asserted that the University is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act because, in its view, not all of the free course and lecture content UC Berkeley makes available on certain online platforms is fully accessible to individuals with hearing, visual or manual disabilities.

It was specifically a legal measure intended to promote access for all, that resulted in UC Berkeley and other major universities being forced to disables access to billions of potentially interested people for the sake of a population of (I'd assume) probably millions barring additional funding being found specifically for this purpose.

Does the law in this case help open horizons for people or in this case limit them?