May 29 Sonos app bugs with VoiceOver

By Prateek Dujari., 30 May, 2024

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Note Please add bugs with the May 29 update you have experienced firsthand to this post.
One. The two finger Z gesture to jump back a screen is still broken
Two. On the now playing screen towards the end right before the “more“ button, voice over lands on control but says nothing and this needs to be correctly labeled . Single finger double tap actually Opens up the output selector window to choose which rooms I want to play the current queue list on.
Three . Two finger double tap gesture to play pause music from any Sonos app screen is still broken with VoiceOver
Four . The now playing screen still does not contain the currently playing song name, corresponding artist name and corresponding album/playlist name and forces you to come out of the screen and go through more T edious inefficient swipes and gestures to locate this information near the bottom o f the screen Five. Without the use of “ heading styles “ as was beautifully implemented in the pre-May 7 solos app , is grossly missing making it really inefficient and a lot harder with considerably more cognitive brain lord for voice users to find different sections of whatever displayed on any of the 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
Six. 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 problem number five above makes navigation so much harder for blind low vision voice over users . insertion point between v and i , at the 1,339th position

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By Prateek Dujari. on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 15:24

7. 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.
8. Many control buttons are duplicated as far as voiceover is concerned resulting in VO saying the control button twice for the same control. typically, there is an image for the control button and then the control button itself next to the image. VO thus reads the image label and then upon one swipe landing on the actual button reads the button label. this is highly annoying, totally non ergonomic requiring unnecessary extra swipes and additional cognitive brain load to have to hear VO say the label twice as mentioned above. Examples include and not limited to crossfade, volume up/down, 'close button for 'now playing screen.
9. the edit home screen controls to move or delete items, is inaccessible to voiceover. VO says to drag the item to reorder or delete which is inaccessible and unusable with Voiceover.

By Rod on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 15:24

I hope all the bugs in the article are eventually fixed. I am optimistic. Sonos said they would improve accessibility, but it would take until the end of June to fix everything. I am glad that all the updates since May 7th have included Voiceover improvements. The app is now useable for me. I appreciate Sonos for addressing this. And, I like the layout of the new app much better. Can't wait for the end of June to see all the app improvements, but I use Sonos Voice Control to do a lot of tasks without reaching for my phone!

By mr grieves on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 15:24

Found a few unlabelled buttons under System Settings.

"CHEVRONRIGHT  " - under Visit Help Centre.

Also has this under each product. Under my Roams it has "BATTERYCHARGING100  ".

Under Shop Sonos it has "EXTERNALLINK  "

By Prateek Dujari. on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 15:24

10. Sonos advertises in many of their speakers such as the Sonos 5/Sonos subwoofer that user can connect NAS Drive and play songs from the mapped folder in the Drive through the Sonos system. In the May 29 Sonos app there is nowhere to manually nor automatically update The mapped folder index for The folder in NAS Drive. This is broken therefore,.

By Kevan on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 15:24

I went with Alexa. I don't really use the app, instead prefer using voice commands to control it since the Alexa app isn't that great either with VoiceOver.

By Elena Brescacin on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 15:24

Setting an alarm: VoiceOver correctly speaks which one is on or off, but does not allow you to toggle the switch.
Expected behaviour:
"alarm time, [speaker name], [playlist title]". Double-tapping on this control, brings you to the alarm's setting. Which speaker, which playlist, volume, repeat, etc.
From the alarm clock's name, flick to the right, and find the switch saying on - pressing it, it will go off, and vice-versa.

current behaviour:
"alarm time, [speaker name], [playlist title], toggle on/off - double-tap to change the setting".
You actually double-tap on the alarm clock and open its settings, with volume, speakers and so on; but no way to turn it on or off!

Then, another issue: when you open the window with weeks' day to toggle which days the alarm should be active, VoiceOver does not detect whether or not they're flagged on or off.
Yes, the main alarm's screen tells you if it repeats daily or which days it's on. But it's a useless double-check.