The Shores Restaurant Cares About Accessibility

3/20/2019

Our goal is to provide hospitality to all people who visit our restaurant. 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 restaurant, we invite you to contact us via telephone or email and our friendly staff will gladly assist you.

858.456.0600
ShoresDining@TheShoresRestaurant.com
8110 Camino Del Oro, La Jolla, California 92037

We work very hard to provide an easy-to-use online experience for all our guests. We believe all of our website visitors should be able to easily research online at https://www.theshoresrestaurant.com/ regardless of device type or the need for assistive technology like a screen readers, font magnification, translation or voice recognition software.

To ensure this, The Shores Restaurant 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 have been developed with careful consideration of these guidelines and is continuously being enhanced to make our technology more accessible and user-friendly.

We have tested our restaurant's website to ensure that we meet or exceed Level AA of the WCAG 2.1 Standard.

If you have any questions or would like to report any issues related to the accessibility features of our restaurant's website, please contact us at ShoresDining@TheShoresRestaurant.com

You can learn more about W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) HERE

Additionally, the entire site was tested using WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool, created by WebAIM.org, a third party authority in web accessibility. The site is tested periodically to ensure any added or edited content conforms with the latest accessibility guidelines, as reported by the WAVE tool.

Subsequent reports were run on: 03/01/2023; 02/03/2023; 01/17/2023; 01/01/2023; 12/01/2022; 11/04/2022; 10/03/2022; 09/01/2022; 08/01/2022; 07/08/2022; 07/01/2022; 06/01/2022; 05/13/2022; 05/01/2022; 04/01/2022; 03/01/2022; 02/10/2022; 02/01/2022; 01/01/2022; 12/01/2021; 11/03/2021; 10/01/2021; 09/02/2021; 08/09/2021; 08/01/2021; 07/01/2021; 06/01/2021; 05/28/2021; 05/01/2021; 04/01/2021; 03/01/2021; 02/01/2021; 01/01/2021; 12/01/2020; 11/03/2020; 10/01/2020; 09/01/2020; 08/01/2020; 07/02/2020; 06/02/2020; 05/03/2020; 03/01/2020; 02/01/2020; 01/03/2020; 01/01/2020; 12/04/2019; 11/21/2019; 11/06/2019; 10/01/2019; 09/01/2019; 08/01/2019; 07/05/2019; 07/04/2019; 07/01/2019; 06/13/2019; 05/29/2019

Browser Help

Optimize the way you view your web browser. If you have difficulty in reading the The Shores Restaurant 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

Restaurant Website Accessibility Features

This restaurant website for The Shores Restaurant 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 restaurant'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.theshoresrestaurant.com/site-map.aspx

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.