I'm of two minds on this. My Total Accessibility Mind says, " If you need a reasonable accommodation to do your job, then accommodate."

My Performing Mind says if you need to use sheet music, you should save the song until you know it. Eye contact with the audience is a major tool to use and you can't use it when you are looking at the words. Also as I approach middle age the words need to be bigger and bigger all the time. That means bigger sheets. The members of my band are always at odds with each other about this too. I think that if we don't know a song well enough to do it without sheets we shouldn't attempt it just because some one requested it. Not so with others in the band. Still, we've been a band for 30 years. My feeling is its better to not do a request and substitute something else than it is to do a poor job of it. Every body but one in the audience hears a botched job and one person says, "Thanks for trying." I've seen Seamus a dozen or so times and shared a bill with him half as often and I've never heard him flub a line. Of course it could be live and it could be Memorex. :-)(Milli M'Kennedy).

Regards

Don