Hi Paul,
Tripcase is pretty good. You can send confirmations to tr...@tripcase.com
mailto:tr...@tripcase.com and they are added into an itinerary similarly
how tracking emails sent to Ship-Rack are added to the app. This way if you
book hotels, flights, cars etc. you can send all of these confirmation
emails to Tripcase and have them in chronological order in the app.
If you ad flights you will also be notified of flight delays and so on and
you get a few reminders the day before your trip and a couple of hours
before.
Kayak does the same, however, it is also accessible and you can book hotels,
flights etc.
For hotels I really like Booking.com since they were very responsive as far
as accessibility improvements are concerned, but while Hotels.com is a bit
more difficult to use, I do like the fact that they have their rewards
program where if you book 10 nights you get 1 free night.
I did briefly try the Agoda.com app and did not find it very accessible at
all. In any case, any time I compared Hotel prices from booking.com,
hotels.com or Expedia, I never found a significant difference.
I have also recently used the Expedia app to book some flights from Hong
Kong to Manila and some domestic flights in the Philippines and it works
well except that at the final check-out page after you have entered all the
details and credit card info, there is a slider right above the home key and
the easiest is to double tap and hold and then slide it all the way from
left to right as this is how you agree to their terms and conditions etc.
You can flick up and it goes 0%, 10%, 20% etc. all the way up to 100%, but
last time I tried this and somehow it didn't work and then I asked a sighted
person and they explained the slider and I tried that and it worked right
away.
Another must-have for somebody who likes to travel especially if you go to
places on holidays where you really want to find out about hotels,
activities and so on is the Trip Advisor app from the www.TripAdvisor.com
http://www.TripAdvisor.com website. Here you can find uncounted reviews
of hotels, activities and all sorts of stuff and while Booking.com and
Hotels.com have their own ratings, I always look for hotels I think are good
and which are in my budget and then I go to Trip Advisor and read reviews
from people who actually stayed there.
They also have stuff like the Top 80 things to do in Manila just to give
one example and so on. Then there is also a Trip Advisor City Guide app
which I haven't really used much yet so I can't say how accessible it is.
Lastly, depending on where I go I always check the app store to see if there
are specific apps for that place. For example, for Hawaii the Revealed
series of travel books has apps for Maui, Oahu and so on and while there are
a few unlabeled buttons on the first screen, they are easy to figure out and
once you are past them you can read tons of stuff about beaches, activities,
restaurants and so on.
Similarly I am going to the island of Boracay in the Philippines in a few
weeks and they have their Essential Boracay app which is also relatively
accessible.
OK, hope this gives you some ideas, happy travelling.
Take cjare,
Sieghard
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Paul Ferrara
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 1:12 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: tell me your favorite and least favorite travel apps
All, I am starting to collect apps for booking travel; I already know
booking.com and hotels.com are ones people like. Excluding those, which ones
work well for you, and which ones have been bad, especially as it relates to
VO accessibility?
Thanks.
Paul
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