[Desktop][Other] Make both Windows and Mac clients Screen Reader friendly

Blind or visually impaired people simply cannot enjoy their music on their preferred desktop system. The spotify client has not Screen reader accessibility, making it totally unusable. After installing the Spotify client the blind user can only login with their credentials. After that only an empty screen, according to the Screen Readers.On the Mac there is a workaround that makes the client usable but quite difficult since it still requires mouse use and lots of patience. By executing the following script an accesible mode is enabled, but it has to be used every time the app closes. /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotify --force-renderer-accessibility > /dev/null 2>&1 & This Chromium based windows allows to control Spotify with VoiceOver but as I said before it still requires lots of mouse to do most of the things. 

Updated: 2015-07-27Hello and thanks for the feedback!
Any news regarding this request will be announced in the original idea topic here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Desktop-Other-Make-Spotify-more-accessible-for-blind-amp/idi-p/1078714
Please add your kudos and comments there, if you haven't already. ;)

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