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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.

AccessibilityHotel 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
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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

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Learn about the Accessibility features of these major Internet Browsers below:

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-map

Images 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

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.