BOM and accessibility

[shigawire]

The BOM publishes weather radar data online. This is awesome. The palette they use is practically useless for colour-blind people. This is NOT awesome.

The luminance of the scale they use is all over the place. Here is a sample image., and here is the same image in black and white. See how easy it is to make out without relying on hue? Although I

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

Very nice! I think yours is prettier too :)

[kasinik]

It's very patchy, as the radar shows. The CBD was completely clear when I left work, but it was coming down in torrents only 10km away.

[redbraids]

Cool code and I like that you have picked up on some of the issues of visual data display

[anonymous]

I have passed this link on to some people that I know that work at the BoM.

[frenchiephish]

*like*