Accessibility
An open door for every guest.
This page is maintained by the owners of The Cardinal House to answer common questions about how we work on accessibility across visitcardinalhouse.com. Last reviewed July 17, 2026.
Our commitment
We target Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA as a working standard and improve continuously. This site is app-owner maintained content, not an independent certification.
What's supported today
- Keyboard navigation across every page, with a "Skip to main content" link as the first focusable element.
- Screen-reader-friendly labels on icon-only buttons, form fields, and links that open in a new tab.
- An on-site preferences panel (the button, bottom-left) with:
- Text size — Default, Large, Extra large.
- Higher contrast for muted text and borders.
- Reduce motion for animations and transitions.
- Underline every link.
- We honor your operating system's Reduce motion and Increase contrast settings on first visit.
- A list-view alternative for our interactive map on the Area Guide — every place on the map is also reachable as plain text with distance, drive time, and directions.
- Keyboard shortcut Alt + A opens the accessibility preferences from anywhere on the site.
Known limitations
- The interactive map is provided by Google Maps and inherits its keyboard and screen-reader behavior. The list view is the equivalent text alternative.
- When you click "Check availability," you're handed off to a third-party booking site (VRBO, Airbnb, or Casago). Those sites have their own accessibility practices, which we don't control.
- We do not use a third-party accessibility "overlay" widget. Overlays are widely criticized by disability advocates and can interfere with assistive technology; we prefer to fix issues in the underlying markup instead.
Report an accessibility issue
If something isn't working for you — a form you can't complete, a page you can't read, a control you can't reach — please tell us. We aim to respond within 5 business days.
Reach us through the contacts on the Resources page. Include the page URL, what you were trying to do, and the assistive technology (if any) you were using — it helps us reproduce the problem quickly.
Ongoing work
Accessibility is not a one-time checkbox. We audit new pages and components as we ship them, run automated checks on the color palette and semantic structure, and revisit older pages on a rolling basis. This statement will be updated as that work progresses.