![]() Fair enough if it was some commercial piece of junk, but this is a government agency app, and they are pandering to irrelevant bling to make it “fancy”, and it is very quickly losing relevance and utility.Modern operating systems-including iOS, iPadOS, Android, Windows 10, macOS, and Chrome OS-have their own "Location Services" systems built in. The development of this app is like it’s being driven by a teenage programmer who wants to show lots of bling, but ignores substance and the prime use of the app. There is no option to change the length of historical radar to show, nor the speed at which to show it. There is no option to NOT show predicted radar. ![]() And now, they’ve introduced “predicted radar”… so you get a couple of seconds of actual radar, followed by the same amount of predicted radar, which seems to always be wrong. Then they introduced quartile chance of rain, but don’t show that in the table of upcoming-days predictions, just vague words like “some showers”, when they really could just provide the probability quartiles. First they “smoothed” the radar to make the data rainbow and blobby. The app used to just do forecasts, and at a glance you could see what they were forecasting. We appreciate your feedback to help us learn and we are actively working to improve the accessibility of our app in a future release.Ĭlearly BOM don’t read these reviews. 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. ![]() Add one or many widgets for locations around 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. Provides current, minimum and maximum temperature and more See weather details for your current or selected location Latest highs and lows, including highest and lowest temperature, highest wind gust and total rain ![]() Includes notifications for fire weather, flood, heatwave, marine wind, severe thunderstorm, severe weather, tropical cyclone, and tsunami Warning notifications for up to 3 locations around Australia See rain 90 minutes into the past and future Waters forecast and summary for the coming days, including tides (for relevant locations) Total wave height and direction (for relevant locations) Hourly forecast temperature, wind, gust, and rain for the next 72 hours Wind speed, direction and gust (in knots and km/h) It's free and ad free on mobile and tablet devices, with widgets so you can see the weather at a glance. Australia's official weather app from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).ĭownload the BOM Weather app for access to hourly and 7-day forecasts, radar and warnings – wherever you are.
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