Eric, I posted a few messages about the Booking.com app which is probably one of the most complete hotel booking apps with over 300,000 hotels and Bed and Breakfasts offered worldwide. I contacted the company in mid May because while the app was fully accessible, once you did a search and ended up on the results page, Voiceover was very slow and sluggish and you couldn't swipe through the results properly. If you did pick a hotel by double tapping on it, then the rest of the booking process was fully accessible again.
I received an immediate reply regarding my request and was told that this would be passed on to the developers. A week or so later I received another message (without asking) that the development team was looking into this. About another week or 10 days later I received a third message saying that the development was in the process of making changes which would improve Voiceover accessibility and that these improvements would be available in the next update. It took about 2 weeks for the update to appear on the app store, but it did come out in mid June and now the app works perfectly. There are still a few buttons which could maybe be labeled a bit better, but nothing is so that one can't figure it out easily. Booking.com is a pretty large organization and I was very impressed with their reaction, it was basically a month from when I contacted them until the improved app was available in the app store. Kayak works quite well, too, but I like Booking.com because it integrates with Passbook and so does the Air Canada app which is very accessible so at least for most of my domestic travel here in Canada I can have all my confirmations, boarding passes and so on in Passbook and I find that very convenient. The Trip Advisor app is by the way also accessible and a good resource if you want to check out ratings and reviews of hotels, attractions and activities. I booked my entire Thailand trip using mostly Booking.com and Trip Advisor. When I was there I did use an app called Thai Flight to book some in-country flights. If you search for "booking.com" you should find my previous posts quite easily in the archives since it's a unique search term. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
