Accessibility for blind people

[Almero_Steyn]

Want to add my voice here. I found this when I posted another thread about it:

@Almero_Steyn

Some background first. I am new to Roon and still in my trial period. Also I do not have any visual or motor impairments. But for various reasons, including what I do as my day job, software accessibility is pretty important to me.

So yesterday I thought I would see how the Roon interface measures up and I was a bit appalled to be honest.

I did not expect that this product would be so completely and utterly inaccessible to users with visual impairments (needing screen reader software) or those on computer relying on keyboards and other types of assistive technologies, such as switches.

I tried using VoiceOver on the iOS application and am unable to access anything at all in the application while the screen reader was active, let alone have any content in the application read out.

Then I tried the Windows application and with a keyboard I am unable to access anything at all as well, which, in turn also means that by default all Windows screen reader users are excluded.

I am putting this up here for awareness sake. Personally, for my own purposes, I am very happy with Roon but I cannot help wondering why such a premium interface would choose to completely exclude users who would very much be able to enjoy the sound quality and interface function simply because they have less vision or motor control than I do.