IMPORTANT ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES THROUGHOUT OUR WEBSITE AND HOTEL
Our goal is to provide hospitality to all people who travel to San Francisco. 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 our property and book their stay if they so desire.
If you have difficulty learning about or booking our hotel, we invite you to contact us via telephone or email and our friendly staff will gladly assist you.
Our building is over 50 years old and presents architectural and structural restrictions that limit our ability to reasonably achieve certain mobility improvements to accommodate guests including those who need to utilize a wheelchair. All of our guest rooms are above the ground floor. The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection determined that due to the architectural and structural limitations full ADA compliance was technically infeasible. Please contact the hotel and ask for the General Manager if you have specific questions about the accessibility features of our property. Please review our website's dedicated accessibility webpage to learn more about our property's accessibility features. Click Here To See Approval of Technical Infeasibility Request From The City and County of San Francisco Department of Building Inspection.
We work very hard to provide an easy-to-use online experience for all guests. We believe all of our website visitors should be able to easily research online on https://www.mithilahotel.com regardless of device type and whether an individual requires assistive technology like a screen reader, font magnification, translation or voice recognition software.
To ensure this, Mithila Hotel is committed to compliance with Level AA success criteria of the Website Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1), an international standard measure of accessibility success. Our website and digital marketing has been developed after carefully parsing these particular guidelines and is continuously being enhanced to make our technology more accessible and user-friendly.
We have tested our hotel’s website to ensure that we meet or exceed Level AA checkpoints of the WCAG 2.1 Standard.
Our hotel website allows visitors to search for accessibility featured guest rooms with ease and details our property’s accessibility features on our Hotel Overview page which can be found here: https://www.mithilahotel.com/overview
If you have any questions or would like to report any issues related to the accessibility features of our hotel’s website, please contact us at [email protected]
You can learn more about W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) HERE
- Mithila Hotel is a Historic Place which does not allow for wheelchair and mobility accessibility to be readily achievable without destroying the historically preserved nature of our Hotel.
- Hearing Impaired Light Alerts with Kit
- Visual Door Knocker
- Shaker Alarm Clock
- TDD Teletype
- Closed Captioning Television
- Hearing Impaired Light Alerts – Free Portable Equipment Provided by Hotel
- Communication Kits Available with TTY Machine, Strobe Light, & Visual Door Knocker
- Visual Alarm – Free Portable Equipment Provided by Hotel
- Telephone with Visual Call Alert – Free Portable Equipment Provided by Hotel
- Auxiliary visual alarms, notification devices and telephone accommodations
- Faucet that is easily operable with hardware that is (i.e.: levers, wrist blades, single arm, etc.) usable with one hand
- Intercom is available at the front door is available to call for assistance
- 32 Inch Wide Openings to Common Areas
- Accessibility Equipment for The Deaf
- Signs on The Property Include Braille are Easy to Read and Free From Reflective Material
- Door hardware (lever, pull, panic bar, etc.) usable with one hand, without tight grasping, pinching or twisting of the wrist
- Fire alarms in the hotel have a visual alarm strobe light
- Hotel corridors a minimum of 36” wide
- Key card reader positioned so persons who use wheelchairs may approach and operate the opener
- Service Animals Allowed At No Additional Charge
- WCAG Level 2.1 Website
- Service Animals Allowed
- Hearing Impaired Light Alerts with Kit
- Visual Door Knocker
- Shaker Alarm Clock
- Visual Alarm Equipped
- Closed Captioning Television
- Hearing Impaired Light Alerts – Free Portable Equipment Provided by Hotel
- Communication Kits Available with TTY Machine, Strobe Light, & Visual Door Knocker
- Visual Alarm – Free Portable Equipment Provided by Hotel
- Telephone with Visual Call Alert – Free Portable Equipment Provided by Hotel
- Accessibility Equipment for The Deaf
This hotel website for Mithila Hotel is designed to be fully accessible to all and is designed according to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 and conforms to most priority checkpoints which entail some of the following elements:
Navigation Shortcuts
Our hotel’s 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 at: https://www.mithilahotel.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 Guidelines. All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 and use structured semantic markup.
Accessibility References
- 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 Mithila Hotel 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
- Microsft Edge: Click Here for Click Here for Microsoft Edge Accessibility Features
- Apple Safari: Click Here for Apple Accessibility Support