Hotel Accessibility
Accessibility & ADA Compliance
At Ocean House Hotel at Bass Rocks, we make sure every guest enjoys a comfortable, seamless experience from the moment they arrive until it's time to leave.
We strive to ensure that each visitor can experience the best of what we have to offer. We look forward to welcoming you.
Hotel Accessibility Accessibility Features
- Accessible public entrance, restrooms, lobby, and deck
- Accessible route to guestrooms
- Accessible route to the lobby
- Hotel complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
- Strobe alarms
- Braille placards
- Service animals welcome
- First-floor accommodations for wheelchair access
- Wide doorways and ramps for wheelchair access
- No elevators
- Service animals welcome
Guestroom Accessibility
- ADA-compliant guest rooms on the first floor only
- Braille room numbers
- Accessible bathrooms (select rooms)
- Rooms accessible to wheelchairs (no steps)
- Mobility features with entry or passage doors that provide 32" of clear width
- Strobe alarms
Website Accessibility
Ocean House Hotel at Bass Rocks
Date: 5/2/2023
At Ocean House Hotel at Bass Rocks we are committed to providing an excellent online experience for all our guests - including those with hearing, vision, and other disabilities. To ensure this, Ocean House Hotel at Bass Rocks strives to substantially conform with Level AA success criteria of the Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 . Our website is designed, developed, and maintained in accordance with these guidelines, including regular testing. If you have any difficulty, questions, or would like to report any issues related to the accessibility of our website, please contact us at info@oceanhousegloucester.com or 888-802-7666. Subsequent reports were run on: 05/02/2023
Browser Help
Optimize the way you view your web browser. If you have difficulty in reading the website on your screen, you may be able to change the settings on your browser to help you improve readability and visibility of each webpage: Learn about the Accessibility features of these major Internet Browsers below:- Mozilla Firefox : Click Here for Mozilla Firefox Accessibility Features
- Google Chrome : Click Here for Google Accessibility Features
- Internet Explorer : Click Here for Microsoft Internet Explorer Ease of Access Options
- Apple Safari: Click Here for Apple Accessibility Support
Website Accessibility Features
This website is designed to be fully accessible to all and is designed according to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 and conforms to most priority checkpoints which entail some of the following elements:Navigation Shortcuts
Our website can be navigated by using the tab key to traverse the elements of each page and by using the enter key to activate a highlighted link.Structured, Semantic Markup
HTML heading tags are used to convey the document structure. Navigation menus are tagged as HTML maps so that the menu title can be read out, and the menu items are presented as a group. Please see our Site Map for easy navigation at: https://www.oceanhousegloucester.com/site-mapImages Visibility
All content images include descriptive ALT attributes and all purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.Standards Compliance
The site is designed to conform to Level AA compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 and use structured semantic markup.Accessibility References
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
- Section 508, Information and news about the accessibility standards introduced by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Accessibility Software and Services
The following tools and services are available for free to assist you with viewing and interacting with our website:- Click Here for HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
