So posting for thoughts/advice.
Was in a training course. A few of us were taking notes on our laptops, others using pen/paper (or no notes at all 😂).
A person on the course interrupted about 20 minutes in and quite forcefully asked someone using a laptop to stop as they couldn't concentrate due to the noise.
The person wasn't typing particularly loudly (I do have sympathy when it comes to people to hammer a keyboard incessantly!) nor constantly. Just typing the odd note for a minute then stopping as the trainer went on to the next point. They were not sat near to the person either.
The person typing said they would try to type more quite quietly but refused to stop using the laptop. The situation was quite uncomfortable and I was very conscious of not being able to take notes as I normally would.
Taking notes using a laptop is not uncommon where I work.
Apparently the person asking to stop spoke to the laptop user (and one other) in the break and said they had ADHD and could not concentrate on the training. The other person said again they would minimise the noise but not stop taking notes.
Obviously I want everyone to be able to access the training. However I'm not sure if it's a reasonable expectation that for any meeting/training you are in that you should expect others to make paper notes they then have to transcribe.
What's reasonable here?