The Rivers Edge Motel is dedicated to providing exceptional service to each and every one of our guests. We strive to provide online content that creates an excellent user experience for visitors of all abilities, using any type of assistive technology to access the website.
We base our website accessibility standards on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, level A + AA success criteria. In addition, we actively work to maintain, assess, and improve the usability and accessibility of our website through training of our personnel, engagement of experts, and regular testing of our digital accessibility.
We welcome feedback
If you experience any difficulty accessing or navigating our websites or have any accessibility-related questions or comments, we are listening. Please contact us at theriversedgemotel@gmail.com with a description of the issue you encountered and your contact information. Your experience matters to us.
The Rivers Edge Motel website may contain material from social media sites such as Facebook and Youtube, which are used to share additional content about our property, facilities and services. These third-party sites may have accessibility issues that are beyond our control. We invite you to review further public accessibility information directly from Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Instagram.
Accessible Features and Amenities
The Rivers Edge Motel , built in the late 1980s and remodeled under new ownership in 2016, is in accordance with the construction statutes of the ADA (Department of Justice ADA Title III Regulation 28 CFR Part 36, 1991). The main office & river view rooms were build in 1986, and the pool view rooms, as well as the gym, were built in 1993. We welcome guests of all abilities. Our property descriptions aim to allow any visitor to make an informed decision on whether the hotel is an appropriate choice for their needs.
PROPERTY FEATURES
Parking Features:
Accessible route from parking area to the main entrance
Space to accommodate accessible vehicles
Public Path of Travel:
Accessible public entrance with ADA ramp, and 36”-wide doors
Accessible registration desk with height of 36”
Accessible route from the public entrance and rooms to the registration area
Accessible emergency exit with ADA ramp and 36”-wide doors (same as public entrance)
Pool Features:
Pool Lift
Pool Bathroom Features:
Accessible public restroom
ADA compliant toilet with bars on one side and back, flush handles on user side
GENERAL UNIT INFORMATION
Standard rooms with entrance door widths of 36” and bathroom door widths of 36” (Please note that standard rooms do not have any accessible features)
Visual and audible alarms for smoke, fire and emergency
Guest room televisions have closed captioning or closed captioning decoders are provided
ADA ACCESSIBLE UNIT INFORMATION
Accessible guest room with entrance door width of 36”, bathroom door width of 36”, roll-in shower, fire alarm strobe, grab bars in bathroom, lower bed height and accessible vanity
Accessible route from public entrance and registration area to accessible rooms.
Visual and audible alarms for smoke, fire and emergency
Ramp leading to suite and wheelchair threshold
Roll-in shower
Handheld shower inside both accessibile unit shower and roll-in shower
Kit with door knocker, door bell with strobe, bed shaker alarm clock, telelphone signaler, telephone amplifier, Portaview telephone keyboard (word viewer is available in office)
ADA compliant toilet with bars on one side and back, flush handles on user side
Knee protection on sinks in vanity
Lamps have pull chain
Service animals are welcome at the Rivers Edge Motel
Accessible route from public entrance and registration area to accessible room.
From a digitally-accessible website to complete descriptions of all onsite amenities and features, we wish to provide a positive experience from start to finish. Please note that this accessibility statement applies to all content on the Rivers Edge Motel website. The hotel is not responsible for any third-party content on the website.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Hotel Website Accessibility
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.theriversedgemotel.com/sitemap/
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 Guidlines. All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 and use structured semantic markup.
Accessibility Reference
- 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.
- Click Here for Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer , a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
- Click Here for Lynx, a free text-only web browser.
Browser Help
Optimize the way you view your web browser. If you have difficulty in reading the Rivers Edge Motel 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
Disclaimer
The Rivers Edge Motel is committed to facilitating the accessibility and usability of its website, www.theriversedgemotel.com, for people with disabilites. Working with a retained web services company, The Rivers Edge Motel will be implementing, over time, the relevant portions of the World Wide Web Cosortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guildelines 2.0 Level AA (“WCAG 2.0 AA”) as its web accessibility standard or other standards to the extent required by the American with Disabiliites Act (“ADA”). Our website will be tested on a periodic basis with assistive tehcnology such as screen readers and screen magnifiers, and with users with disabilites who use these technologies.
Please be aware that our efforts are ongoing. If, at any time, you have specific questions or concerns about the accessibility of any particular webpage on www.theriversedgemotel.com or any of our other destination websites, please contact us at theriversedgemotel@gmail.com. If you encounter an accessibility issue, please be sure to specify the particular web page in your email, and we will make all reasonable efforts to make that page accessible for you.