Ensuring our digital products and services are accessible and inclusive is of the utmost importance. Thank you for letting us know of this experience. I hope these matters can soon be addressed. In this day and age, I think all blind technology users would hope and expect developers to be on top of accessibility issues and test new releases with screen readers etc. ![]() 6 pm and earlier had a 20% or greater chance of rain whereas it is 5% or less from 7pm. For instance, from 7 pm this evening, every hour is mostly sunny all through the night and tomorrow. Also, there must be some sort of Alt-tag or something that voiceOver detects when checking the hourly forecasts(Which is not visible on the screen). However, the initial screens for setting up are totally inaccessible and I had to turn VoiceOver off and get my wife to click continue and access the choose location dialogue before I could gain any sort of access. The new app seems to be as accessible as previously and I do like having hourly forecasts. View in landscape or portrait mode (device rotation)Īs a blind voice-over user, I found the old app reasonably accessible and really only want to check temperatures, humidity, wind, rain and basic forecast information. Accessible design that allows you to resize the font in your device settings Enhanced metadata to give you the location of the observations and the forecast last updated times Weather mood background and night-time mode 90 minutes observed (past) and 90 minutes forecast (future) rainfall Push Notifications for one location for these warnings - tropical cyclone, fire weather, flood, tsunami, severe weather, severe thunderstorm and heatwave Weather warnings for your current location 72 hours of temperature, rain and wind observations ![]() Waters forecast including wind, seas, swell, and tides. 7-day forecast including temperature, text weather summary, fire danger rating, UV Index and sun protection 4 days ahead, sunrise/sunset and moon phases 1-hourly forecast for 72 hours including temperature, rain, humidity, wind direction and gust, and speed (in km/h OR knots) Wind (in km/h OR knots – tap to change) and wind gust BOM Weather is the Bureau of Meteorology's weather app, giving you the most accurate weather information at your fingertips.
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