It appears Sonos is about to become less useable by screen reader users. The CEO should stop it now, but here’s how to protect your investment if he doesn’t
https://mosen.org/sonos2024/
Sonos has broken accessibility for its blind users. Now they must repair the app and repair trust

Revision History 3 June, updated progress on accessibility  improvements, and commented on the BBC radio 4 In Touch interview. 15 May, added a section covering recent developments including the AMA…

Mosen At Large

@JonathanMosen Wow, what an absolute disaster! And I thought in 2024, we finally would be past such grand fuckups! Excuse the language… But there is no other word that can describe how I feel about this. We have 12 Sonos devices in our household as well, and many of them are already the second generation devices, after the first gen we bought ten years ago started breaking down or no longer receiving updates.

As for Sonos’s commitment to accessibility: This was definitely true for the iOS and Android apps in the past, but never for the Mac app. The Mac app is the same rubbish that I downloaded ten years ago, and my reports on the easy to fix labeling problems totally went unheard. So while it is appalling, this newest round of accessibility fuckup doesn’t totally come as a surprise.

@Marco @JonathanMosen And I was hoping… I know there is no such thing as “commitment to accessibility”, especially for such a small company, but I was at least hoping for “attention to accessibility” and a bit of sentiment! :)