Sophie Yeomans-Smith, Digital Product Manager, Met Office

Accessibility audit of the Met Office app: outcomes and learnings

Andrew Hick, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Government Digital Service, Eu-Hyung Han, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Government Digital Service and Sophie Yeomans-Smith, Digital Product Manager, Met Office, 14 January 2025 - Accessibility, Accessibility Monitoring

We explore how the Met Office responded to an accessibility report. We also trialled tandem testing and highlighted the lessons we learnt in understanding mobile apps.

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