Hi, I’ll put my answers below your questions with a * before them so you’ll know which is which. Hello all, I am considering sonos as a way of sending music to various zones in my house. I know sonos has been discussed here in the past but haven’t really followed that thred. Wondering if you could answer a few basic questions for me:
1) How accessible is the sonos app? *Extremely so there are few better in terms of accessibility. 2) Has the company sonos been responsive to address accessibility issues? *Yes their phone staff and twitter support staff are both well aware of Screen Readers, VoiceOver and the like; and they have at least a few blind people participating in their beta test programs too. 3) When you stream audio using sonos does voice over remain on your phone? *Yes perhaps the best way to understand this is by thinking of the phone as a remote. It merely tells Sonos what to do and even when streaming from the music on your phone it merely views it as a source for material just as it would a network drive or a music library on your computer’s hard drive. VoiceOver is not impacted. (The only caveat I’d mention is when first installing the app on an iDevice be sure to navigate to settings and turn off “hardware volume control.) While this is a neat idea in principle it’s been my experience that its impact on changing VoiceOver’s volume doesn’t make it worth having at this point for us. I wish the app could turn it off by default if it detects VoiceOver running. 4) Anything else I might want to keep in mind before taking this step? *No don’t think so and should you do so their return policy seems quite friendly so if you aren’t satisfied nothing is lost. But I do hope you like as much as other users such as myself do. Happy listening. Robin From: Sachin Pavithran Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:55 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Voice Over accessibility for Sonos Hello all, I am considering sonos as a way of sending music to various zones in my house. I know sonos has been discussed here in the past but haven’t really followed that thred. Wondering if you could answer a few basic questions for me: 1) How accessible is the sonos app? 2) Has the company sonos been responsive to address accessibility issues? 3) When you stream audio using sonos does voice over remain on your phone? 4) Anything else I might want to keep in mind before taking this step? Appreciate any feedback that you all might be willing to provide. Cheers. Sachin -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
