Checking the Weather iOS 8
iFocus Program
Tips on Using the
Vision Accessibility Features in iOS:
Checking the Weather
Presented by
Douglas Walker
The Hadley School for the Blind presents iFocus: Tips
on Using the Vision Accessibility Features in iOS. In
today's installment, we'll look at checking the weather.
Douglas Walker
Hello, my name is Douglas Walker and I am an
instructor of assistive technology here at the Hadley
School for the Blind. Today we are going to be looking
at checking the weather. We're using the iPhone
6Plus for today's demonstration and we are using the
Weather App that is built right into our iPhone. It really
is a great tool for being able to keep up to date on not
only our current weather but also the weather for the
next few days. So let's get started by launching our
Weather App and we will just flick right to it.
iPhone Audio
Weather. Double tap to open.
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Douglas Walker
And we'll just a single-finger double tap to launch it.
iPhone Audio
Weather, Nashville, cloudy 37°. Wednesday, high 43,
low 34.
Douglas Walker
Okay. You notice that my Weather App showing the
Nashville weather and that is because I am currently
in Nashville. It really is great that the Weather App
automatically displays the weather for your current
location. So we don't have to do a web search to find
the weather for wherever we might happen to be.
Now if we touch close to the top of the page or the
screen here, we’ll be read our current conditions,
which we just heard when we launched it. But let's get
an idea of how the screen looks by just touching near
the top of the screen here.
iPhone Audio
Nashville, cloudy, 37°. Wednesday, high 43, low 34.
Douglas Walker
And again, that's the information we just heard but
we're sort of just orienting ourselves to the screen
because we're going to move all the way through this
screen. So that's pretty great. We’re given the current
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temperature and conditions for wherever we are right
here. All right, now say that we want to know our
hourly forecast. All we have to do is begin flicking to
the right to move through each hour. So let's just flick
to the right once to see how this looks. So I'll go
ahead and right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Hourly forecast. Now cloudy, 37°.
Douglas Walker
All right. Now the first item in our hourly forecast is of
course our current temperature and conditions. Now
our hourly forecast is laid out in a horizontal list from
left to right, right across the center of our screen here.
And as we continue to right-flick, we’ll be given the
hourly forecast for our next 24 hours. Of course, that
means we'll need to flick 23 more times. Well, let’s
just begin anyway to see what this looks like. So we'll
go ahead and right-flick a few times here.
iPhone Audio
12:00 PM, cloudy, 39°.
Douglas Walker
All right.
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iPhone Audio
1:00 PM, cloudy, 43°.
Douglas Walker
I’m right-flicking every time you that click, click.
iPhone Audio
2:00 PM, cloudy, 43°.
Douglas Walker
All right.
iPhone Audio
3:00 PM, cloudy, 43°.
Douglas Walker
All right, flick.
iPhone Audio
4:00 PM, partly cloudy, 43°.
Douglas Walker
And we’ll just continue to right-flick.
iPhone Audio
4:33 pm, sunset.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, so we get the sunset and stuff like that. I'll rightflick one more time.
iPhone Audio
5:00 PM, mostly cloudy, 39°.
Douglas Walker
Okay. So we kind of get the idea of how we move
through the hourly forecast. Now if we to continue to
right-flick, we'll eventually end up in a list of our daily
forecast just below our hourly forecast, and this is
going to give us the forecast for the next few days. So
how about we just quickly right-flick through the rest
of our hourly forecasts here. So bear with me
because remember, there are 24 hours here. So we'll
just right-flick through the rest of these here. So I'll go
ahead and right-flick.
Now sometimes it will jump us all the way down to the
bottom of the screen. If that happens, I'll just have to
physically go looking for our daily forecast, but
hopefully it'll just move right down to those. So we'll
just right-flick through the rest of our hourly forecasts
here.
iPhone Audio
6:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 8:00 PM...
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Douglas Walker
And I'm flicking...
iPhone Audio
9:00 PM, 10:00 PM, 11:00 PM, 12:00 AM, 1:00 AM,
2:00 AM, 3:00 AM, 4:00 AM…
Douglas Walker
I'm getting there...
iPhone Audio
5:00 AM, 6:00 AM, 6:50, 7:00 AM, 8:00 AM 9:00 AM,
10:00 AM, 11:00 AM. Daily forecast...
Douglas Walker
All right.
iPhone Audio
Thursday, cloudy, high 41, low 32.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so we heard voice over announce daily
forecast and we have in place on the forecast for
tomorrow which is Thursday. All right. So our weekly
forecasts are now in a vertical list view instead of a
horizontal list view like our hourly forecast was. And if
we continue to right-flick, we're given the daily
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forecast for the next nine days here which is pretty
great. So let's just right-flick through the rest of our
daily forecast here and we'll just right-flick through
these.
iPhone Audio
Friday, partly cloudy, high 45, low 37.
Douglas Walker
So I'm just going to keep right clicking this and get on
through these.
iPhone Audio
Saturday, rainy. Sunday cloudy. Monday partly
cloudy. Tuesday rain. Wednesday, Thursday sunny.
Friday showers. High 46, low 30... Today, Friday,
showers, high 46, low 34.
Douglas Walker
All right, so Friday is the last day in our daily forecast
and I did move into some details at the bottom and
left-flicked back to Friday there because I wanted to
stop right there for us. All right, now if we keep rightflicking from here, we're given some really great
details, a lot of details actually about today's weather.
So let's just right-flick through these details at the
bottom of our screen here. So we'll just right-flick.
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iPhone Audio
Today, cloudy currently. The high will be 43°. Mostly
cloudy tonight with a low of 34°.
Douglas Walker
So we’re given a lot more details about today's
conditions here so I'll keep right clicking.
iPhone Audio
Details, sunrise, 6:52 AM.
Douglas Walker
So we have a sunrise there.
iPhone Audio
Sunset, 4:33 PM.
Douglas Walker
And a sunset.
iPhone Audio
Chance of rain, 10%.
Douglas Walker
A low chance of rain here.
iPhone Audio
Humidity, 72%.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, so I'll right-flick period.
iPhone Audio
85 miles per hour.
Douglas Walker
And the wind direction and speed there.
iPhone Audio
Feels like 34°.
Douglas Walker
All right, and I'll keep flicking.
iPhone Audio
Precipitation, 0.0 inches
Douglas Walker
No rain
iPhone Audio
Pressure 30.33 inches.
Douglas Walker
There's our pressure
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iPhone Audio
Visibility, 10.0 miles.
Douglas Walker
All right.
iPhone Audio
UV index, zero.
Douglas Walker
Goodness gracious, we have a lot of details here.
iPhone Audio
The Weather Channel.
Douglas Walker
All right. And here we are on the Weather Channel
button and this is in the bottom left corner of our
screen here. The Weather Channel actually provides
the weather information for our Weather App and
that's why you have the Weather Channel button
down here. Now if I activate this button, it would take
us to Safari and right to the Weather Channel
website. However, we don't want do that because
believe me, this Weather App is going to be so much
more accessible than trying to navigate through the
Weather Channel website.
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All right, so let's just right-flick again. We have a
couple more things at the bottom of this screen here.
So we'll flick to the right.
iPhone Audio
Nashville, city one of two, adjustable. Swipe up or
down with one finger to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
All right. So the next to the last element or item in the
bottom of our screen is an adjustable bar here. This is
great because we're able to add favorite cities into
this app. Then if we flick up or down while we're on
our adjustable bar element here at the bottom center
of our screen, we can move between our different
cities, or our favorite cities that we've added. Now
we'll be given all the same information for each of our
cities that we just saw on our Nashville screen. So
how about we just flick up to see how this works. So
I'll go ahead and flick up.
iPhone Audio
Chicago, city two of two.
Douglas Walker
All right. Now how about we just touch near the top of
our screen here to see the current conditions in
Chicago. So just like the previous screen, we can just
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begin flicking through this after I do this. So let's touch
near the top of our screen here.
iPhone Audio
Chicago, cloudy, 28°. Wednesday, high 32, low 27.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and like I said before, we have all the same
information here. We could just began right-flicking
and we'd have the hourly and daily forecasts and
more details for Chicago here. So that's really nice.
We can add even more cities here. All right, so let's
say that we want to add another favorite city. Let's
take a look at how to do that. So what we'll do, we
have an edit cities button in the bottom right hand
corner of our screen. So we'll touch down here in the
bottom center again to start orienting ourselves to...
iPhone Audio
Chicago, city two of two, adjustable.
Douglas Walker
Adjustable bar there.
iPhone Audio
Swipe up or down with one finger to adjust the value.
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Douglas Walker
And we can just right-flick from here to get to our edit
cities button.
iPhone Audio
Edit cities button.
Douglas Walker
All right. And now all we have to do is single-finger
double tap on our edit cities button to begin searching
for another city here. All right, now we're able to
search in a few different ways. But we'll talk about that
in just a second. Let's go ahead and just single-finger
double tap here. And we didn't get any information
which happens sometimes and that’s fine. What I'm
going to do is I'm going to touch near the top of our
screen here because we've been placed in a list of
our favorite cities here with a few other buttons, or few
other settings. I'm going to go ahead and touch at the
very top of our screen here.
iPhone Audio
Nashville current location, 12:03 PM, 37°. Button,
double tap and hold. Then drag vertically to rearrange
cities.
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Douglas Walker
All right. We heard voiceover announce how we’re
able to sort of rearrange these cities, so we could
move these cities around in this list if we want.
However, we’ll just you leave them as they are and
we're going to look at how to add a city. So let's go
ahead and just flick to the right to move through this
list here. So I'll go ahead and right flick.
iPhone Audio
Chicago, 12:03 PM, 28°. Button double tap and hold.
Then drag vertically to rearrange cities. Swipe up or
down to select a custom action, then double tap to
activate.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our second city there. All right, so
currently only have two cities here and as we continue
to flick through this page, we’re going to encounter
just a couple more settings here. So let's just rightflick.
iPhone Audio
Temperature scale, Fahrenheit button. Double tap to
toggle temperature units.
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Douglas Walker
And there's our first setting here. And as we heard, if
we single-finger double tap, we can change our
temperature units from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
However, we're just going to leave ours on Fahrenheit
for now and we'll just flick to our last setting here. So
let's right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Add city button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, here we are on our add cities button. Now
when we single-finger double tap our add cities
button, we're going be placed in a search field where
we're able to find another favorite city to add. So we'll
just single-finger double tap to open up our search
screen here.
iPhone Audio
Search field is editing.
Douglas Walker
All right, here we are in a search field at the top of our
screen here and we've been given a standard
QWERTY keyboard at the bottom of our screen. Now
we're able to search in few different ways. We're able
to search by typing a city's zip code or their airport
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location or the name of the city. So how about we add
New York City to our list here. We'll do that. We're just
going to type New York here. So we'll go ahead and
type New York.
iPhone Audio
Capital N-E-W-Y-O-R-K.
Douglas Walker
All right, now as we started typing, a suggested cities
list started dropping down just below our edit field that
we were using at the top here. We're just going to
explore this screen real quick to see what it looks like.
So let's just touch our search field. We have a little
descriptor at the very top. We'll touch that at the very
top of our screen.
iPhone Audio
12:06 PM. Enter city, zip code or airport location.
Douglas Walker
And these are the different ways that we're able to
search, and that's just the descriptor at the top of our
page here. Now we'll just right-flick to our search field
here. So we'll just right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Search field is editing New York.
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Douglas Walker
And there's our search field with the city we just typed
in it so let's just right-flick until we find our search
results, that drop down list that started popping up
there here. So I'll go ahead and right-flick again.
iPhone Audio
Clear text button.
Douglas Walker
And there's a clear text button that we can activate if
we want to clear this text and begin a whole new
search. We don't want to do that so we'll just rightflick.
iPhone Audio
Cancel button.
Douglas Walker
And again there is a cancel button if we decided that
we didn't want to add another city. All right, so when
we flick again, we're going to be in our search results
list so we'll just right-flick.
iPhone Audio
New York, NY, United States.
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Douglas Walker
All right, and at the top of this list is New York, New
York. That's great, but how about we just flick to the
right a couple more times to see how this search
results, see the other cities we have here. All right, so
we'll just right-flick a couple more times.
iPhone Audio
New York, United States.
Douglas Walker
All right, there's New York, United States.
iPhone Audio
New York Mills, NY, United States.
Douglas Walker
New York Mills? Okay.
iPhone Audio
New York Mills, MN, United States.
Douglas Walker
All right. And we'll flick or more time.
iPhone Audio
New York, AR, America forensics data.
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Douglas Walker
All right, so you get the idea. Let's just left-flick back
through our list and we’ll find New York, New York
here. So I'll left-flick...
iPhone Audio
New York Mills, New York Mills. New York, United
States. New York, NY, United States.
Douglas Walker
Okay, since this is the city that we want to add, all we
have to do is single-finger double tap anywhere and
it'll be added right to that favorite city's list that we had
earlier. So we'll just single-finger double tap. Again we
can do that anywhere on the screen.
iPhone Audio
Nashville, current location. 12:08 PM, 37°. Button
double tap and hold. Then drag vertically to rearrange
cities.
Douglas Walker
Okay. So here we are back in our list of favorite cities
again. Let's just right-flick until we find New York in
our list. And I'm going to keep right-flicking so we
don't have to hear all those hints or those details
about each one of the cities here. So let's right-flick to
New York.
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iPhone Audio
Chicago, 12:08 PM.
Douglas Walker
There's Chicago. I’ll right-flick again.
iPhone Audio
New York, 1:08 PM, 52°. Button double tap and hold.
Then drag vertically to rearrange cities. Swipe up or
down to select a custom action, then double tap to
activate.
Douglas Walker
Okay, now if we want to view the full weather for New
York, all we have to do is single-finger double tap to
activate New York in this list. So how about we do
that, we'll just single-finger double tap.
iPhone Audio
New York, cloudy, 52°. Wednesday, high 57, low 36.
Douglas Walker
And that's great. It's as easy as that. Our full screen
has opened and we have all the same information for
New York that we saw earlier when we moved to our
Nashville screen and then what we saw in Chicago as
well. And that's pretty great. Now let's look at a couple
of ways that we’re able to move between these
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different cities. One way is to go back to that
adjustable bar, to the bottom of our screen here, and
find that adjustable bar that we used earlier. But an
easier way to move between these favorite cities is to
use a three-finger flick to the right or flick to the left
gesture.
This gesture is really a lot faster because we don't
have to go searching for that adjustable bar. So let's
try this out. Since we're on our last city or the third city
on our screens here, we'll just use three fingers and
we'll flick them to the right. Now we'll need to leave
just a little bit of space between these three fingers
here. Otherwise, our fingers are going to appear as
just one large finger. So let's try that. We'll just flick to
the right with three fingers here. So we'll just rightflick.
iPhone Audio
Chicago, page two of three.
Douglas Walker
There we go. We're now on the weather for Chicago.
And that's a pretty easy way to move between our
favorite screens here for our favorite cities anyway.
So that about covers it for how to use our Weather
App. It's a really handy app and one that I use every
single day. Again, my name is Douglas Walker and I
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am an instructor of Assistive Technology here at the
Hadley School for the Blind. Take care and I'll see you
next time.
For more from the iFocus series, including many other
topics of interest to individuals with vision loss, visit
the Seminars at Hadley page on the Hadley School
for the Blind website at www.Hadley.edu.
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