June4 Sonos app bugs with VoiceOver

By Prateek Dujari., 7 June, 2024

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iOS and iPadOS

1. The two finger Z gesture to jump back a screen is still broken
2. Two finger double tap gesture to play pause music from any Sonos app screen is still broken with Voiceover
3. Without the use of multiple heading styles per section of any screen on the Sonos app, it’s inefficient, tedious with considerably more cognitive brain load for voiceover navigation of any Sonos app screen. Implementing heading styles for all the different sections beat an iOS app or a webpage is fundamental for accessibility and usability of the Sonos app
4. Moving one finger along the screen to try to quickly land on the part of the screen I want to land on still doesn’t work on the Sonos app screen which due to the low VO usability design number 3ive above makes navigation so much harder for blind low vision voice over users Needs to be fixed so Voiceover reads each on screen element/text/control as single finger is moved along the screen.
5. The cue list is constrained to max 100 songs from Amazon Music playlist containing greater than 100 songs and this needs to be fixed. Do not observe this constraint on Spotify playlist. I'm an Amazon music unlimited and Spotify premium subscriber.
6. No way to automatically nor manually refresh NAS drive folder under ‘Music’ Library’ source. This needs fixing to comply with advertised Sonos feature for many of it’s speakers including ones I have e.g. Sonos 5 and sub gen 3..
7. Many control buttons are duplicated as far as voiceover is concerned resulting in VO saying the control button twice for the same control. Example1 vo.,3 controls for volume-> volume decrement, slider and increment. The decrement and increment buttons are totally unnecessary adding to clutter and inefficient tedious cognitive load navigation with voiceover since volume slider by itself is just totally sufficient. Example 2 crossfade button is repeated twice and just needs to be present once with an adjacent indicator reading if it’s on or off.

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By Ollie on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 19:45

You need to send this to sonos. I doubt they look at this forum.

By Robin on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 19:45

Hi Friend, I don't know if you're currently participating as a beta tester for #Sonos but if you aren't, perhaps you'd consider doing so as your summary of current bugs is so well-stated that Sonos needs to be made aware of it. I agree with all of your findings much to my great disappointment despite their constant mentioning of #Accessibility improvements in their release note blurbs. I'd just add to your findings that when in the "all channels" area of #SiriusXM the scroll bar though it's advancing percentages if you place a finger in the middle of the screen where channels are you find that you haven't advanced through them very much at all. Further, song titles that used to display even before causing a channel to play are no longer present. And I, like you am extremely irritated that we can't make use of the rotor actions to decide between starting any station or source playing vs. adding it to Sonos Favorites. And that brings me to another thing which I can't solve. For reasons which I cannot fathom I don't always see all of my favorites present on that screen no matter what I click on so much so that I fear something has been removed but when I view its info the "heart" is still filled in so says #VoiceOver. So, while some may highlight improvements incremental though they maybe I remain largely unimpressed though at least my equipment is still usable though as the prior poster indicates with much greater cognitive load. I'm not usually bothered by such but it does irritate in this instance.