Accessibility information

This page has information about using the website and describes how we have tried to make it more accessible.

Using this website

The site structure and navigation are organised as follows.

Site structure

Margot-arendse.co.uk is divided into four main sections:

  1. About Me
  2. Courses
  3. Couture Bridalwear
  4. Contact

Contact and About Me are only one page long, but Courses and Couture Bridalwear are broken into sub-sections for ease of navigation.

In addition to the homepage and the main sections there are two more pages, containing additional information. They are a legal page, and the accessibilty page you are now reading. The legal page contains copyright and authorship information and is reached by clicking on the copyright notice which appears at the bottom of each page.

Navigation

The navigation system is the same on every page. A menu of links to each section appears on the left-hand side and is repeated at the bottom. The image of Margot's logo which sits in the top left corner acts as a link to the homepage at all times.

If you are using the website without CSS, for example with a screenreader, then you will find all navigation menus at the end of each page, so you can get to the content more easily. Every page has a 'jump to navigation' link right at the beginning.

New accessibility features

The site has been rebuilt from scratch, separating presentation and content in order to make it more accessible.

Presentation

Cascading style sheets have been used for all presentation and layout aspects of the site. Font sizes are now specified in the stylesheets, so the HTML is no longer cluttered with FONT tags. Pixel sizes have not been used for font-sizes so users of all browsers can change the text size. Visit the RNIB website to find out how you can resize text in different browsers.

Page layout is now achieved through CSS columns instead of tables, making information easier to find with a screenreader.

Headings have been used in a logical order. Each page has one H1 tag for the main heading, and subsequent headings are H2, H3 or H4.

Content

Content has been broken into short informative paragraphs. Where useful, informative headings are used. Links use meaningful text and images have descriptive ALT tags. The site has been coded in strict XHTML.