Hi. That happened with the mac app. it's now completely useless. And I have contacted them several times with no luck. So I can't recommend Sonos at the moment. If they show more interest to get both ios, android and the computer software accessible I can change my mind. Airplay with airport express and ios and the mac is at the moment a better choice.
Regards Tony 5 dec 2012 kl. 12:10 skrev Søren Jensen <[email protected]>: > Hi. > > Nice work man. I hope you'll get success with that. I have looked at the > Sonos products in a store, and they seems so nice. I'm a bit worried though, > because that totally depends on the app for the i-devices. If they brakes > that, we are left alone with those extremely expensive products which we are > totally unable to use. So I think I will get a promise from the team that > they are going to take accessibility serious in the future, before I de site > to buy any of their products or not. I really wants to by some of their > products, but I am afraid to just stand their, with an updated app which > makes it all inaccessible! > I'm sure you know what I mean. > Best regards: > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > [email protected] > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > Den 05/12/2012 kl. 10.14 skrev Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]>: > >> Hello Listers, especially those who own Sonos products, >> Hello Mike from Sonos, >> >> Sonos released an app update tonight. The single new feature that was >> mentioned is the ability to now play music that is in your music library on >> the phone and not just music that is stored on your PC or external hard >> drive. While this is a nice feature and it is perfectly accessible, I >> discovered that Sonos also broke a feature when Voiceover is running. A >> couple of updates ago Sonos announced that if you were in the Sonos app it >> was now possible to turn the playback volume on your Sonos player(s) up or >> down using the volume keys on the phone. This worked just fine and Voiceover >> volume was unchanged when Sonos volume was adjusted. In this most recent >> update I discovered that when I wanted to turn up the playback volume on my >> Sonos player nothing happened and instead Voiceover volume is being turned >> up even though Voiceover was not talking at that time. I turned Voiceover >> off with a triple click home and the volume up key worked just fine to turn >> up the playback volume on my Sonos player. It is clearly a new bug and while >> I will report this to Sonos I am afraid that their lack of response in the >> past regarding accessibility will mean that from now on a Voiceover user >> cannot use the volume buttons any more unless you first turn off Voiceover. >> I CC this message to Mike Carlino, one of the Sonos support people, and I >> urge all you Sonos users to send emails to Mike as well. I also posted the >> below message on the Sonos Facebook page, Apple is making a big deal of the >> accessibility features of the iPhone and more and more people are aware of >> Apple’s fantastic work so I don’t see why they shouldn’t be aware of other >> companies who apparently couldn’t care less about visually impaired users >> beyond the fact that we also paid to buy their product. >> >> Here is what I posted on the Sonos Facebook page: >> >> Top marks for the latest Sonos update if you are not visually impaired; for >> blind iOS users Sonos continues to disappoint. Apple has been emphasizing >> their commitment to accessibility in many areas. One of these includes >> Voiceover, a built-in screenreader which has been included into every iOS >> version for several years as well as into the OSX operating system. >> Voiceover allows a blind user such as myself full access to a touch screen >> device which due to its lack of tactile buttons used to be considered >> impossible. In true Apple fashion accessibility has been implemented and as >> Steve Jobbs was font of saying "it just works". Being able to use a popular >> device such as an iPhone out of the box without having to spend hundreds or >> even thousands of Dollars for specialty devices or software is truely >> revolutionary. Hundreds of developers have jumped onto the accessibility >> bandwagon and made improvements such a making sure buttons are properly >> labelled and information can be read with Voiceover. One exception is Sonos. >> I as well as a number of other blind iPhone users who also own Sonos players >> (8 of them in my case) have beged Sonos for over 2 years to make a few minor >> improvements and to make a commitment to accessibility which would ensure >> continued support for accessibility. One example is the fact that the >> "Previous", Play/Pause" and "Next" buttons are not labelled and are read by >> Voiceover as something like "vertical bar slash". I have been told by other >> developers that labelling a button is literally a matter of minutes yet >> Sonos releases update after update and just ignores the issue. In the most >> recent release which allows streaming of music that is on your iPhone Sonos >> took it a step further and broke the ability to adjust the volume of >> playback with the volume buttons, a feature they made a big deal of a couple >> of updates ago. The feature used to work, now turning the volume up >> increases the volume of the Voiceover screenreader and Sonos volume remains >> unchanged. This is not a big deal although the ability to change playback >> volume with the volume buttons is nice and it continues to work just fine if >> I turn Voiceover off so it is obvious that this bug was introduced in this >> update. I would love to buy a couple more Sonos players, but I am right now >> very worried that one day Sonos will release an update which will completely >> break the accessibility of the app and it will leave me with just under >> $4,000 of Sonos equipment which I will not be able to use any longer. I hope >> that by letting sighted users know about this some of you will support >> visually impaired Sonos users by letting Sonos know that this is important. >> Of course the number of blind Sonos users is very small as a percentage of >> all users, however making sure that people who have invested in a Sonos >> system are actually able to fully enjoy the product is simply the right >> thing to do especially since the app is probably 90% accessible and only a >> few minor improvements would be required. Sonos, if you have no intention to >> make such improvements, why not just say so outright instead of promising >> for years that improvements are forthcoming? Why not write on your home page >> "Sonos is not fully accessible for blind iOS users and Sonos as a company >> has chosen not to invest in improvements”. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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