Updated: February 2021

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GENERAL

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As further described below, the Hotel St. Michel is making every effort to ensure that our business is as accessible to all of our disabled customers, whether it be on the Hotel premises, through our website at www.hotelstmichel.com, or via third party online booking partners.

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The Hotel will continue updating its accessibility and usability information at www.hotelstmichel.com as well as providing such Hotel accessibility information to the third party online booking platforms.

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ACCESSIBILITY OF THE HOTEL ST. MICHEL PREMISES

The Hotel St. Michel premises is designed to be wheelchair accessible with accessible paths to travel throughout the Hotel, including access to the Hotel lobby, elevator, hallways, an accessible guest room with accessible in-room features, including accessible bathroom features. There is also convenient access to handicapped parking. Additionally, the Hotel's ADA guest rooms are accessible for those who are hearing and sight disabled.

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ACCESSIBILITY ON HOTELSTMICHEL.COM

The Hotel is making every effort to ensure that www.hotelstmichel.com is accessible as possible to all of our customers including those who are blind or partially sighted and use screen readers. The Hotel St. Michel is in the process of implementing and maintaining the relevant portions of the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Level AA (WCAG 2.0 AA) as its web accessibility standard. Our website will be tested on a periodic basis with assistive technology, such as screen readers and screen magnifiers, and with users with disabilities who use these technologies.

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Hotelstmichel.com makes available the UserWay.org  Free Website Accessibility Widget UserWay Website Accessibility Widget that is powered by a dedicated accessibility server. The software allows Hotelstmichel.com to improve its compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).

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ENABLING THE ACCESSIBILITY MENU ON WWW.HOTELSTMICHEL.COM

The Hotelstmichel.com accessibility menu can be enabled by clicking the accessibility menu icon that appears on the top right corner of the page. After triggering the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in its entirety.

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ACCESSIBILITY ON THIRD PARTY BOOKING PLATFORMS (BOOKING.COM, EXPEDIA.COM, ORBITZ.COM, ETC.)

The Hotel is further committed to providing our third party booking partners with updated information regarding the accessibility of the Hotel premises, including information about booking an accessible room for guests using wheelchairs and who are sight and hearing disabled. This includes details about in-room accessible features, in-room bathroom fixtures, accessible parking, accessible elevator, lobby and other facilities in the Hotel, and other relevant accessibility information.

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CONTACT HOTEL ST MICHEL WITH YOUR ACCESSIBILITY QUESTIONS

Please be aware that our efforts are ongoing. If, at any time, you have specific questions or concerns about the accessibility of the Hotel St. Michel premises, any particular Web page on the hotelstmichel.com web domain, or the information about the Hotel St. Michel on third party booking platforms, please contact us at accessibility@hotelstmichel.com. If you do encounter an accessibility issue, please be sure to specify the Web page in your email, and we will make all efforts to make that page accessible for you.

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CONTACT HOTEL ST MICHEL WITH YOUR ACCESSIBILITY QUESTIONS

If you are disabled and need assistance with the online purchasing or registration of Hotel St. Michel services, such as booking a room, or any other purpose of conducting business both on and off our property, please call our Reservations Department at (800) 848-4683. You may also reach Reservations by facsimile at (305) 529-0074 or email at reservations@hotelstmichel.com.

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We have tested our website to ensure that we meet or exceed Level AA of the WCAG 2.0 Standard.

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

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.

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Subsequent reports were run on: 03/10/2020

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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) 2.0 and conforms to most priority checkpoints which entail some of the following elements:

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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.

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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.

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‍Images Visibility

All content images include descriptive ALT attributes and all purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

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‍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.

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ACCESSIBILITY REFERENCES

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.

Section 508, Information and news about the accessibility standards introduced by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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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.
• Click Here for Lynx, a free text-only web browser.

ADA EQUIPPED ROOM

ADA Accessible Room Features (Applicable To Certain Rooms available):

• Accessible rooms on 2nd and 3rd floor with elevator access
• Low king bed
• Large Roll-In shower with railings
• Vanity with space for wheel chair accessibility
• Doorbell for hearing and visually impaired
• Telephone for hearing and visually impaired
• Emergency fire alarm for hearing and visually impaired