Accessibility Advice

Web Accessibility

We strive to provide a uniform online experience for all our guests – including those with sight, hearing, and other disabilities.

To ensure this, we are committed to complying with the Level AA success criteria of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0).

Our site is designed and developed with these guidelines in mind. We test our websites to ensure that they are usable by guests who use assistive technology. While it is not always possible to do so to the letter of each checkpoint, we are continually developing solutions that conform to the spirit of each checkpoint, bringing together a high standard of practicality throughout the website.

If you have questions or would like to report an issue relating to the accessibility of this website, please contact us.

Property Accessibility

Under the Accommodations section of our website, you can find detail on our select accessible guest room accommodations. We offer a wheelchair accessible path of travel to the hotel entrance and an accessible route to the registration area. Overall, our property offers the following accessibility features:

Accessible rooms
Accessible guest rooms with mobility features with entry or passage doors that provide 32″ of clear width
Accessible public entrance
Accessible elevators
Accessible route from the accessible public entrance to the accessible guest rooms
Accessible route from the accessible public entrance to the registration area
Accessible route from the hotel’s accessible public entrance to the business center
Accessible route from the hotel’s accessible public entrance to the meeting room
Alarms – Audible
Alarms – Visual Strobe
Strobe alarms
Braille Elevator
Braille Room Numbers
Closed Captioning on Televisions
Roll-in Shower with grab bars & toilet grab bars
Level or ramp entrance into the building
Service support animals welcome at no additional charge
TTY for guest use
Visual alarm for hearing impaired
Visual alarms for hearing impaired in hallways
Visual alarms for hearing impaired in public areas

Text Sizing

If the text on the site is too difficult to read there are ways in which you can increase and decrease the text size:
In Internet Explorer go to View > Text size and select Larger or Largest.
Mozilla and Firefox users can alter the size of the displayed text by using Control and the Plus/Minus keys to increase/decrease the font size.
Chrome users can alter the size of the displayed text by using Control and the Plus/Minus keys to increase/decrease the font size.

Accessibility Features

Some key accessibility features are described below for those who may wish to take advantage of them.

Images

All images that provide information have appropriate alternative text such that the information is available to people who cannot see the images.

Images that are provided for decoration are provided as either background images or have NULL (empty quote marks) alternative text.

Sitemap

A sitemap page is accessible in the bottom/footer navigation of every page and is provided to assist with navigation.

Areas Not Presently Meeting Accessibility Standards

At present, our online booking system does not validate to the W3C validation service. This is due to limitations of a third-party service. If you would like to book but are unable to use our current online system, please call us at 212.543.0005  and we would be happy to help in any way that we can.