The Nickerson House is committed to ensuring accessibility for all people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards. If you encounter any accessibility barriers on our website or have any questions, please contact us and let us know how we can assist you.
Accessibility Commitment
We at The Nickerson House are dedicated to making our website accessible to individuals with disabilities. We strive to provide an inclusive experience for all visitors, ensuring that they can access the same information and services with ease.
Web Accessibility
Web accessibility aims to ensure that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the web, as well as contribute to it. It encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the web, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities.
Our Accessibility Initiatives
We have implemented various accessibility initiatives to enhance the user experience for individuals with disabilities. Our website complies with WCAG 2.1 guidelines and strives to meet level AA conformance. Some of our key initiatives include:
- - Using the Accessibility Wizard to identify and address potential accessibility issues
- Ensuring clear heading structures on all pages
- Providing alternative text for images
- Implementing color combinations that meet required contrast ratios
- Minimizing the use of motion on the site
- Ensuring accessibility of all multimedia content
Declaration of partial compliance with the standard due to third-party content is not applicable to our website.
The accessibility of certain pages on the site depend on contents that do not belong to the organization, and instead belong to Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, Google Home. The following pages are affected by this: Guest stories. We therefore declare partial compliance with the standard for these pages.
Physical Accessibility
As a historic home on the Historic Registry of the City of San Antonio, The Nickerson House is limited by the law as to alterations to the home. As such, those with physical disabilities requiring a wheelchair should be aware that the front entrance and back entrance to the home has no wheelchair accessible ramp. Doorways of the home are original in their sizing and as such cannot be altered to accommodate for a wheelchair. Wood floor saddles are not flush with the floor. The Nickerson House is committed to providing physical accessibility in accordance with applicable regulations. Our physical location and facilities are NOT designed to accommodate individuals with disabilities, including but not limited to accessible parking, entrances, and amenities.
Contact Us
If you encounter any accessibility issues or have any suggestions to improve the accessibility of our website, please reach out to our accessibility coordinator:
Inquiry@nickersonhistoric.com