Furcast
Furcast is a visual app — pixel scenes, animated characters, colorful charts — but the forecast underneath is for everyone. Accessibility isn’t a checklist we ran once; it’s built into how each screen is designed, and accessibility bugs are treated as bugs, not requests.
Here’s what the app supports today.
VoiceOver
Every screen in Furcast is labeled for VoiceOver: current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, alerts, locations, and settings. Spoken summaries use full words — “8 miles per hour,” “63 degrees Fahrenheit” — never bare abbreviations.
Two places get special care, because their visuals carry no meaning on their own:
Charts. Every forecast chart is a VoiceOver-adjustable element: swipe up or down to step through it hour by hour, hearing the exact value at each point. Charts also support Apple’s Audio Graphs, so you can hear the shape of the day — the temperature curve, the pressure trend, the precipitation spikes — as sound.
Radar. Radar imagery is a picture of raster tiles, so instead of labeling pixels, Furcast describes the situation: a spoken summary of current conditions, next-hour precipitation, and any active alerts for the location — the same decision-making information the map shows visually. The frame slider still announces the time of each radar frame.
Dynamic Type
Furcast respects your system text size throughout the app, including the larger accessibility sizes. Layouts adapt as text grows — data reflows instead of truncating.
Reduce Motion
The living weather scenes are the heart of Furcast, so with Reduce Motion on they don’t disappear — they hold still. Every animated scene has a designed still frame (the polar bear stays out of the igloo; the lightning bolt holds its pose), so you keep the full artwork without the movement.
You can also control motion directly, no system setting required: tap the weather scene to pause or resume it, or turn off Weather Animation entirely in the app’s settings.
Differentiate Without Color
Weather apps love to say things with color alone. Furcast doesn’t:
- Alert indicators spell out the severity in words — not just a colored badge.
- The radar map and its preview card add a plain-text summary of what the colors are showing.
Increased Contrast
With Increase Contrast on, cards and map surfaces draw stronger borders so boundaries stay clearly defined.
Found something that doesn’t work?
Then we want to know about it — genuinely. Accessibility issues get fixed with the same priority as crashes, and a report from someone who uses these features daily is worth more than any audit.
Email support@furcastweather.com and tell us what you were doing, which assistive technology you use, and what went wrong. A real person reads every message and will reply.