MLS: Live Soccer Scores & News 17+

As a blind user of sports apps, this is not my favorite. It is workable but the access could be better. It appears many of the things you click on are more image based and it is not clear if there is an accessible button or link there or not without just blindly trying and hoping it works.

I would also ask that the cap on alerts be lifted. You cannot select updates about the start and end of all games for all teams, because when you choose a team as a topic, the app immediately assigns game start/finish, team news and team goals scored as a package of 3 alerts. So you have to go in and remove two of those three alerts to get down to one, so you can then add more teams. At minimum, I'd like to be able to get a game start/end status for each team and team news alerts. As currently designed, I have game start/'finish for each team, then news, lineups and goals scored at the league wide level.

The content is great, but the app itself has some issues. My first complaint is that the navigation is less intuitive than past designs. I’d prefer to open into a feed of headlines and then navigate to highlights or team headlines. Instead all three feeds are crammed into the home page.
My second complaint is worse although it doesn’t sound like many other people experience this: the audio doesn’t play through my phone’s speakers. Headphones or external speakers are fine. All of my other apps are fine. I’ve racked my brain trying to figure out why this app misbehaves but I can’t figure it out.
I’d give it four stars if the audio bug was fixed and the design was tweaked a bit. I’d give it five if there was some search capability on the news feed.

I have been using the app since it first came out, and I loved all of it. Information was easy to find, game lineups posted as soon as they were given (before announced in stadium). The new design is fancier and prettier but far, far less useful. Some areas are far too touch sensitive - you accidentally open stories when you just try to scroll thru - or not nearly sensitive enough. Some areas are very difficult to open at times. For design, the redesign gets an A, for utility and ease of use, a D+.

For those lamenting about blackouts, it’s the broadcast rules. The games are controlled by the broadcasters (and that includes your local affiliate) for a period (usually 48 hours). That gives them the right to replay if they want. The reason local games are blacked out is because someone has paid for the right to broadcast and they deserve to get their money’s worth. With MLS Live (I can’t speak to ESPN+ because I haven’t tried it yet) I have never found a game I couldn’t watch or rewatch after the 48 hour window, even with my local team.