Hi Paul,
Tripcase is pretty good. You can send confirmations to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Ferrara Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 1:12 PM To: [email protected] 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. 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