Accessibility

Accessibility & ADA Conformance

Old Edwards Inn and Spa
Date: 3/8/2019

Our goal is to provide a welcome experience to all who visit our website. This means everyone. Our mission is to make it as easy as possible for all people including those with hearing, vision, or any other disability to learn about Old Edwards Inn and Spa

If you have difficulty learning about us, we invite you to contact us via telephone or email and our friendly staff will gladly assist you.

866-526-8008
centralreservations@oldedwardsinn.com
445 Main St, Highlands, North Carolina 28741

We work very hard to provide an easy-to-use online experience for all our visitors. We believe all of our website visitors should be able to easily research online at 445 Main St, Highlands, North Carolina 28741 regardless of device type or the need for assistive technology like screen readers, font magnification, translation or voice recognition software.

To ensure this, Old Edwards Inn and Spa is committed to compliance with Level AA success criteria of the Website Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0), an international standard measure of accessibility success.

Our website and digital marketing have been developed with careful consideration of these guidelines and is continuously being enhanced to make our technology more accessible and user-friendly.We have tested our website to ensure that we meet or exceed Level AA of the WCAG 2.0 Standard.

If you have any questions or would like to report any issues related to the accessibility features of our website, please contact us at centralreservations@oldedwardsinn.com.

You can learn more about W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

Additionally, the entire site was tested using WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool, created by WebAIM.org, a third-party authority in web accessibility. The site is tested periodically to ensure any added or edited content conforms with the latest accessibility guidelines, as reported by the WAVE tool.

Subsequent reports were run on: 02/01/2020; 01/01/2020; 12/04/2019; 11/01/2019; 10/01/2019; 09/01/2019; 08/01/2019; 07/25/2019; 07/05/2019; 07/04/2019; 06/05/2019

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:

Website Accessibility Features

This website is designed to be fully accessible to all and is designed according to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 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.

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: