By Chris Harrington, 13 March, 2014
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Accessibility Advocacy
Good morning all,
I rarely post on this site, but I very much value the content it provides. So, lets bring up a topic that has been talked about over and over again.
Spotify's accessibility
I have used spotify for over a year on my iPhone with minimal trouble. I am a premium user, and have nearly 2000 songs in my spotify library, which is my main source for music.
0.9.3 was the last accessible version of spotify and it broke in 0.9.4.
Here is a message I have sent to spotify regarding this issue.
Good morning,
I have upgraded from spotify 0.9.3 to 0.9.4 on an iPhone 5S. I am visually impaired, and use voiceover, a screen reader for IOS. I also use spotify as my main music library. All accessibility issues I've been able to deal with until now.
Here are the problems I'm facing.
My playlists are not visible. When I select playlists, it will show me around five playlists, but will not read the correct names, they are just garbled. Furthermore, when I go in to sed playlist, they are not playlists I have created.
I am sorry if I come across as rude, as I do not mean to, but the accessibility issues are extremely frustrating for me. I have nearly two thousand songs in my spotify library which I now can not access. I know I am not the only one that has asked about spotify accessibility for the visually impaired, so what would it take for some sort of change to happen? This is extremely upsetting to me, Especially since I am a spotify premium user who now can't use the service that is being paid for.
I am not asking for all accessibility issues to be fixed right away, but if the app could be usable, that would be a giant start.
Sincerely,
Chris Harrington
I am planning on starting a petition to turn up the heat on spotify accessibility and was reaching out to see how well this would be received, and to get some help with wording this petition so it sounds as professional as possible.
Thank you all, and I welcome comments!!!
Chris Harrington
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