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From: Swift, Daniel P.
Date: May 1, 2018 1:03PM

Being a developer, I always prefer to make my own than rely on widgets. Weather.gov provides XML feeds that your developers could use and style as needed:

http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/

Obviously, this is for the US so this might not fit your needs :-)


Dan Swift
Senior Web Specialist
Enterprise Services
West Chester University
610.738.0589

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7200)
Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 2:55 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible weather widgets

Greetings all,

The developers in my organization are looking for a Section 508 compliant weather widget to run on one of our pages. One that they looked at is from Willy Weather, and a sample can be viewed here:

https://www.willyweather.com/widget/create.html?sid=2h5de1kogb6958ppmch325cb96

Personally, I'm not thrilled with this one. At least with JAWS, it seems like the frame title is missing or is just the widget name maybe. The way the low and high temps for the weekly forecast read, they lack any indication of which is which. Also, only the days after the current day are named. So in the sample we tried here, Monday and Tuesday's low/high temps were not identified by day. From what one of my sighted colleagues said, it visually looks the same as what I'm hearing with JAWS.

Are you aware of any more accessible weather widgets out there, or is this one pretty much par for the course?


Courtney