RE: Accessible travel apps

[Sieghard Weitzel]

It would help if you listed the services/apps/websites you have tried. I 
usually check Expedia, I haven't used Hotels.com or Booking.com (I believe 
those are for accommodation only) for a long time, but they used to be 
accessible 10 years ago so hopefully they are still. Kayak is also another one 
which should work.

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Subject: Accessible travel apps

Hello everyone
I would like to ask you about some accessible apps where I can check for 
example flight tickets and purchase it as well as hotels Unfortunately my 
experiences with the most popular hotel apps are not very good

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Accessible travel apps

[Rafał Marzec]

Hello everyone
I would like to ask you about some accessible apps where I can check for 
example flight tickets and purchase it as well as hotels
Unfortunately my experiences with the most popular hotel apps are not very good

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Travel Apps

[SSEric]

This week I am taking a road trip between Ohio and Georgia. I wonder if anyone 
knows of must – have apps for such car travel, via highways and freeways. 

I once heard of an app that, of course, I can't recall right now, which tells 
you of interesting, strange, or weird places nearby as you drive. I am thinking 
of something along those lines, as opposed to GPS maps, etc.

I am going from Central Ohio to Savannah Georgia, which takes me through 
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. If anyone has any must sees, I will 
gladly except recommendations. We probably should exchange those privately, and 
my address is below.

All thanks in advance!

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Re: Travel Apps

['RobH.' via VIPhone]

Blind Square and AroundMe both spring to mind.
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From: "SSEric" <sseri...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 3:26 PM
Subject: Travel Apps


This week I am taking a road trip between Ohio and Georgia. I wonder if anyone 
knows of must – have apps for such car travel, via 
highways and freeways.

I once heard of an app that, of course, I can't recall right now, which tells 
you of interesting, strange, or weird places nearby as 
you drive. I am thinking of something along those lines, as opposed to GPS 
maps, etc.

I am going from Central Ohio to Savannah Georgia, which takes me through 
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. If anyone has any 
must sees, I will gladly except recommendations. We probably should exchange 
those privately, and my address is below.

All thanks in advance!

Eric
sseri...@gmail.com
Call/Text: (614) 296-9467

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Re: Travel Apps

[Feliciano Godoy]

Hi,
BlindSquare is great for this. You will love it, well worth the money.

Regards,
Feliciano
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> On Sep 14, 2015, at 7:26 AM, SSEric  wrote:
> 
> This week I am taking a road trip between Ohio and Georgia. I wonder if 
> anyone knows of must – have apps for such car travel, via highways and 
> freeways. 
> 
> I once heard of an app that, of course, I can't recall right now, which tells 
> you of interesting, strange, or weird places nearby as you drive. I am 
> thinking of something along those lines, as opposed to GPS maps, etc.
> 
> I am going from Central Ohio to Savannah Georgia, which takes me through 
> Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. If anyone has any must sees, I will 
> gladly except recommendations. We probably should exchange those privately, 
> and my address is below.
> 
> All thanks in advance!
> 
> Eric
> sseri...@gmail.com
> Call/Text: (614) 296-9467
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Re: Travel Apps

[Sherrie]

I used and app called iExit on our last car trip. It lets you explore what 
is at exits on the interstates. It was a bit frustrating at times with the 
voice over but I was able to use it.  For instance I searched for Chick 
Fil-a and discovered there was one at the very next exit. Then I got the 
driving directions to it. I need to write to the developer since it did 
close on me several times which was frustrating but I am using IOS 7 on an 
iPhone 5.

The app is free so give it a try.
Sherrie Gosling



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Blind Square and AroundMe both spring to mind.
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To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 3:26 PM
Subject: Travel Apps


This week I am taking a road trip between Ohio and Georgia. I wonder if 
anyone knows of must – have apps for such car travel, via

highways and freeways.

I once heard of an app that, of course, I can't recall right now, which 
tells you of interesting, strange, or weird places nearby as
you drive. I am thinking of something along those lines, as opposed to GPS 
maps, etc.


I am going from Central Ohio to Savannah Georgia, which takes me through 
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. If anyone has any
must sees, I will gladly except recommendations. We probably should exchange 
those privately, and my address is below.


All thanks in advance!

Eric
sseri...@gmail.com
Call/Text: (614) 296-9467

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tell me your favorite and least favorite travel apps

[Adrienne Sinclair Chalmers]

Hi

There's an app called Skyscanners which spent a lot of time working with 
visually impaired people to make sure it was more accessible. It does flights 
anywhere in the world. However, it does take you to the operator's site for the 
actual booking and they are not all as good.

Best

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RE: tell me your favorite and least favorite travel apps

[Alan Lemly]

For flight tracking, I really like FlightView. This app comes in free,
regular ($.99), and Elite ($3.99) versions and works well with VoiceOver. It
supports forwarding of itinerary emails to import your flight info into the
app, push notifications, and sharing of flight information across multiple
devices. I find it very easy to work with.

Here's a link to the regular version if anyone wants to read about it:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flightview-real-time-flight/id374341341?mt=8

Alan Lemly

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Hi

There's an app called Skyscanners which spent a lot of time working with
visually impaired people to make sure it was more accessible. It does
flights anywhere in the world. However, it does take you to the operator's
site for the actual booking and they are not all as good.

Best

Adrienne

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tell me your favorite and least favorite travel apps

[Paul Ferrara]

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.

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RE: tell me your favorite and least favorite travel apps

[Sieghard Weitzel]

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

 

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Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 1:12 PM
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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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RE: Travel apps in general

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Hi Penny,

The apps that are being discussed use map data/information which is compiled
by companies which do that. There are only a few of these in the world and
basically all of the apps buy the rights to use this information from them.
Google and Apple have gone out done a lot of their own mapping, but I am not
even sure if they aren't even getting some information from companies like
Navteq or Tele Atlas which are 2 of the main digital map providers.

In any case, all the main stream GPS apps like Navigon, Garmin, TomTom,
Motion GPS, MapQuest etc. use maps from either Navteq or Tele Atlas.
Specialized apps like the new Seeing Eye app from Sendero which is the only
full-featured app for the blind which offers both turn by turn directions
for travelling along a route from point A to point B as well as ongoing
information about streets and intersections as you walk along also uses
Navteq Maps. I am simplifying this a bit since Sendero also uses another
source for maps, but it sounds as if you have little knowledge at this point
so such details I think are not relevant at this stage.
Apart from Sendero there are apps like BlindSquare, Ariadne GPS or the
earlier app from Sendero called LookAround. These apps help in telling you
where you are, what is around you, what your nearest cross street is and
which direction you are going in. Some do this better than others, in my
opinion BlindSquare does the best job giving you automatic announcements of
upcoming cross streets and points of interest and it also allows you to set
your own places/points of interest. You could, for example, stand right
beside the bench of a bus stop you use and set that as a place and the next
time you walk along and come within a certain distance which you can
determine, BlindSquare would tell you, for example, Bus Stop 1, 50 feet at
2 o'clock.
Most GPS apps also give you information about so-called POI's or Points of
Interest. These are things like restaurants, banks, businesses, stores etc.
Just as with maps, there are companies who compile databases of such POI's.

I suggest you start getting more information about the topic of GPS
navigation by listening to Podcasts about some of these apps. There is a
good Podcast about the Seeing Eye app on www.applevis.com and others are out
there, if you are unable to find them via Google, maybe some other list
members who have saved the URL for a specific Podcast will share it with
you. Mike Errigo (hope I didn't misspell that) who recently rejoined this
list has done some good Podcasts comparing main stream apps like Navigon and
TomTom, if Mike reads this maybe he will contribute some useful information.
I am also giving you the app store links and prices for some of these apps,
the Seeing Eye app is free to download, but it is nonetheless your most
costly option as it requires you to buy a subscription or licence after you
download it. Without the subscription the app can't access the map
information on the Sendero servers.
The subscription is $70 for 1 year or $130 for 3 years. This sounds
expensive as apps go, but the app does give a blind person the most useful
information and $130 over 3 years only works out to $3.61 a month.
Furthermore, if you buy a main stream turn by turn app like Navigon which
costs $39 to $59 depending on what version you buy, you still need something
like BlindSquare which is $20 because Navigon will not give you any
information unless you enter a route, e.g. you are now here and want to go
to this restaurant or this store etc. Even then it will tell you when to
turn left or right, but as you walk along it may tell you to now follow the
road for 1 mile and you may pass many streets as you go, but Navigon says
nothing about these or what kind of intersections they are. You may have to
set a route and let Navigon run in the background which it will happily do
and then use an app like BlindSquare to get more information about what is
immediately around you. The Seeing Eye app will do all of this in one app
and if you are basically familiar with a route and you maybe just want some
reassurance as you walk along, then the Seeing Eye app will just give you
information as you walk without the need to set a route.

Ariadne GPS, $5.99:
https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/ariadne-gps/id441063072?mt=8

BlindSquare, $19.99:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindsquare/id500557255?mt=8

Seeing Eye GPS:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seeing-eye-gps/id668624446?mt=8


Good luck,
Sieghard


-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Penny Golden
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:05 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Travel apps in general

 I'm new to all this.   I hear you discussing all these apps that 
show roads and streets walking or in the car.  How does that all work?  
Do you just download the app and learn?  Or do you first have to download
something such as google maps

?
Or would the addition of some

GPS Navigation apps, was: Travel apps in general

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Hello Penny and List,

I apologize, I should have changed the subject the way I did now since the
original topic of travel apps really referred to apps for booking flights,
hotels etc. Penny's question was about GPS navigation and I guess if this
thread grows somebody should probably start a new one.


Take care,
Sieghard


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Of Penny Golden
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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Travel apps in general

 I'm new to all this.   I hear you discussing all these apps that 
show roads and streets walking or in the car.  How does that all work?  
Do you just download the app and learn?  Or do you first have to 
download something such as google maps

?
Or would the addition of some other kinds of GPS that I haven't even 
thought of make these apps you're discussing more effective?
Or, do they just work all by themselves without additions?  Thanks, and 
sorry to be a pest.




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Re: Travel apps in general

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 Of Penny Golden
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 To: viphone@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Travel apps in general
 
 I'm new to all this.   I hear you discussing all these apps that 
 show roads and streets walking or in the car.  How does that all work?  
 Do you just download the app and learn?  Or do you first have to download
 something such as google maps
 
 ?
 Or would the addition of some other kinds of GPS that I haven't even thought
 of make these apps you're discussing more effective?
 Or, do they just work all by themselves without additions?  Thanks, and
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Re: Travel apps in general

[Raul A. Gallegos]

 as you walk without the need to set a route.

Ariadne GPS, $5.99:
https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/ariadne-gps/id441063072?mt=8

BlindSquare, $19.99:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindsquare/id500557255?mt=8

Seeing Eye GPS:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seeing-eye-gps/id668624446?mt=8


Good luck,
Sieghard


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Subject: Travel apps in general

 I'm new to all this.   I hear you discussing all these apps that
show roads and streets walking or in the car.  How does that all work?
Do you just download the app and learn?  Or do you first have to download
something such as google maps

?
Or would the addition of some other kinds of GPS that I haven't even thought
of make these apps you're discussing more effective?
Or, do they just work all by themselves without additions?  Thanks, and
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Travel apps in general

[Penny Golden]

I'm new to all this.   I hear you discussing all these apps that 
show roads and streets walking or in the car.  How does that all work?  
Do you just download the app and learn?  Or do you first have to 
download something such as google maps


?
Or would the addition of some other kinds of GPS that I haven't even 
thought of make these apps you're discussing more effective?
Or, do they just work all by themselves without additions?  Thanks, and 
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Travel Apps

[Gary Petraccaro]

Which app handles pedestrian travel?

- Original Message - 
From: James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com

To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 8:41 AM
Subject: RE: The Seeing Eye app, greed, greed, greed!



Funny. I figured she just didn't want to be ripped off. As has been said
on
here and elsewhere. Navigon is a one-time payment, and is pretty much
exactly as accessible as the Seeing Eye app. They also don't charge you
for
updates. The Trecker, while more expensive, also doesn't charge you for
map
updates. And if we're being honest, the Seeing Eye app doesn't need to pay
for its access to, let's say, foursquare information, which is where it
pulls its points of interest from. So again, what are you paying for for
$70/year?

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Kevin Barry
Sent: July 3, 2013 6:17 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: The Seeing Eye app, greed, greed, greed!

She expects everything for nothing.

At 10:04 PM 7/2/2013, you wrote:

Do you expect them to lose money on this app? They have to pay a fee in
order to use the maps that this app utilizes. The problem is that there
are not millions of people who are going to buy this app, only a few
thousand, and the cost of using those maps must be spread out through
the purchasers.
I bought a human rare ware Trekker 7 years ago that did little more
than this app. It cost me fifteen hundred dollars.
If you do the math, after subscribing to this app and paying the taxes,
it works out to less than twenty two cents a day. That is a small price
to pay for something that is customized for a specific portion of the
population.

Chuck (mobile)
Pleez x cuze enny tie ping or spelin air ores.

On Jul 2, 2013, at 6:46 PM, Mary Anne Lynskey marlyn...@gmail.com wrote:

 I think it's a disgrace and a total rip off. Not even a trial?
Even so, it's too expensive and nothing but outright greediness.
I've already written this as a rating for the app, adding that it's
nothing less than a case of total greed, greed, greed, taking
advantage of blind people and stealing money out of their pockets.
Sixty-nine bucks a year, that is outrageous! What a cocky attitude for
Sendero to adopt. who do they think they are anyway? I couldn't even
rate it zero stars and I begrudgingly gave them one just to speak my
mind.

 Mary Anne Lynskey


 On 7/2/2013 2:28 PM, Chuck Dean wrote:
 At this time, they are only offering a one year, and a
three-year subscription.

 Chuck (mobile)
 Pleez x cuze enny tie ping or spelin air ores.

 On Jul 2, 2013, at 11:25 AM, dan Thompson dthomps...@mchsi.com
 wrote:

 Hi chuck, can one buy a lifetime membership or do we have to
keep paying for
 rights to use the app?

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 and live according to your word.

 Verse of the Week
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 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs
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 Prayer:  O gracious and Holy Father, give us wisdom to perceive
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 3 he restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness
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 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
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 -Original Message-
 From: viphone@googlegroups.com
[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
 Of Chuck Dean
 Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:07 PM
 To: viphone@googlegroups.com
 Subject: The Seeing Eye app, a quick test.


 Hi all, I took the Seeing Eye GPS app for a quick walk around my
 neighborhood to see how well it performed. I walked about one
mile, and took
 a different route back. It worked well, although like most GPS
 apps it seemed to use a lot of battery, over twenty percent in the
 one

mile walk.

 The interface of the app is simple and easy to understand.
 Entering an address is made easy because the state and city you
 are in are already entered, so only the address number and street
 need to be entered. If you are going to another city, however, you
 will need to change that field. I started by searching for a point
 of intrest and starting a route. The app uses voice over for most

Travel apps?

[Jim Portillo]

Howdy,

 

Does anyone know of any good apps that deal with finding good air line
reservation deals?  Or are there any good air fair tracking apps?  I'm
looking to take a trip this summer and know that I need to find the best
deal.  Thoughts?

Jim

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Re: Travel apps?

[TheOreoMonster]

kayak
On Mar 14, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Jim Portillo portillo@gmail.com wrote:

 Howdy,
  
 Does anyone know of any good apps that deal with finding good air line 
 reservation deals?  Or are there any good air fair tracking apps?  I'm 
 looking to take a trip this summer and know that I need to find the best 
 deal.  Thoughts?
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