Marco Zehe
@marco@caneandable.social
Accessibility veteran. #Blind from birth, live in #Germany, worked for Freedom Scientific on #JAWS and #Braille displays, and for Mozilla #Firefox. Shaped web #accessibility with work on #WAI #ARIA. Happy early retiree.
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Sonos, rant, very strong language
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It is unbelievable to me that a heavy-weight like Sonos manages to fuck up their products again and again and again. Since a shitty software update a few weeks ago, several current generation Aera 100 speakers constantly lock up in a way that their volume can no longer be regulated via their app. And if they can be added to a group, removed from a group, or behave in any other way consistently or not, is totally up to the current tide, the phase of the moon, or whether their CEO currently needs to fart or not. This has been the situation since early June, and so far they haven't managed to fixed this basic usability regression. And before you ask, we've restarted the speakers numerous times, only for them to be in the same unusable state a few minutes or hours later. They worked fine for over a year before that. The result is that my partner and I use a pair of 20 dollar bluetooth speakers with our iPhones to listen to music because that's more reliable than the several hundred Euro worth of speaker setup. After the disaster that was the app upgrade two years ago, this is another reason to deeply distrust the Sonos brand for the foreseeable future.