A Top Priority in 2018: 7 Steps to Achieve Hotel Website Accessibility and ADA Compliance
"Many travel consumers with disabilities use desktops, tablets, smartphones and other devices to access the Internet with the help of assistive technologies, including text-to-speech screen readers, refreshable Braille displays, keyboard navigation, and captioning. Such technologies have been available and widely used for decades, and today’s hotel website must enable these assistive technologies to allow travel consumers with disabilities to get the information they need and complete a transaction on the
hotel website.
Over the past few years, a number of hotel companies—big and small—have been contacted by law firms with legal complaints and lawsuits related to the hotel website not conforming to the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) and various website accessibility guidelines. These law firms seek hefty compensations and claim they represent clients with disabilities who have not been able to use the hotel website to find information or complete a booking. Using simple free HTML scanners and validators that are highly inaccurate, these law firms can easily find examples of non-compliance on any hotel website. In fact, over 95% of all websites
are in some form of non-compliance with website accessibility standards (Criterion508)."
Corporate Tax-Law Changes Drive
Hoteliers to Rethink Their Business Classification
"One of the biggest talking points from the recently passed tax law—the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—is that corporations will enjoy a tax-rate reduction from 35% to 21%. That 145 windfall has many hoteliers asking: Should we reclassify as a C-corp?"
