hi Sieghard, Thanks for communicating with this developer. Yes, this app is outstanding now. We are planning a trip for next January, and I expect we will use this app to book our hotels. And yes, the list generated from a search is totally accessible.
Les On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > A while back I posted my very positive experience contacting Booking.com who > offer over 300,000 hotels via their website and app. I wrote to them and > mentioned that the app worked well, but that the search results list was > almost unuseable with Voiceover since it was extremely sluggish, you couldn’t > flick through the list of results and touching the screen in different places > did work, but it was sluggish and often unreliable and repeated a lot of > information. > > I initially contacted them about a month ago, in Mid May. I received a prompt > reply that my feedback would be passed on to their development team. About a > week later the same person reported that the development team would look into > this and again a week or 10 days later (about 2 weeks ago) the same person > again send me a message without me asking saying that improvements had been > made and would be available in the upcoming update. The update took a while, > but this morning it was in the app store and I downloaded it right away and > did a search for hotels in Vancouver. I am very happy to say that now the > list of search results works perfectly, it is fast and you can right flick > through the list, Voiceover reads the hotel name and the starting price of > the room rates it found for the date you entered. You can then double tap on > a hotel, often there is more information given and even in the prior version, > once you got to that point actually making a reservation was no problem. > Booking.com does also work with Passbook and I find this very handy since > after I make a booking I can add it to Passbook and when I get to the hotel I > can, if necessary, just pull up the booking confirmation. > > This is another example of a large company being very responsive and I hope > everybody who travels on a regular bases for pleasure or business and who > needs to make hotel reservations will give the Booking.com app a try and > hopefully take a few minutes to give them a good rating with a comment that > they are a happy Voiceover user of the app. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
