[vicsireland] Re: Met Eireann's 5-day forecast not accessible.
- From: "Tim Culhane" <tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:40:06 -0000
Hi,
The five day forecast on the bbc website gives some text information like
temperature, general conditions, wind speed and direction etc. Perhaps
something like that could be done.
They say a picture paints a thousand words, and Describing the weather for
the next 5 days is a black art at the best of times.
Tim
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Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Met Eireann's 5-day forecast not accessible.
Hi, I have looked at this site in the recent past and yes, I didn't really
manage to get much information from it. I suppose that its not that they
are intentionally not having it accessible but just presenting the
information the way they would say on TV. The only thing that they could do
to correct this in some way is have a text only five day outlook. Now, they
will also say that they have a premium phone service you can call or you can
hear weather updates via news bulletins and other such media outlets but
then you also have to consider the work they might have to do in creating a
text only page. How much work will it create and for how many people? Is it
reasonable for us to demand that every single website be blind friendly?
Nicholas Kealy
Strategic Affairs
National Employment Rights Authority
O'Brien Road
Carlow
Tel: 059 - 9178947
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