Access and accessibility
Getting in, through two doors
Two doors, and the same promise for both: say plainly what is known, never guess at what is not, and make the adjustment you need before you arrive.
The first half is about the studio on Crownpoint Road. The second half is the accessibility statement for this website, with what was tested and what still falls short.
The studio door
The premises are still being fitted out, so some answers do not exist yet.
Known now
- The studio is being set up on Crownpoint Road, Glasgow G40, in a street of commercial units on the north edge of Bridgeton
- Bridgeton station is a short walk away
- Assistance dogs are welcome
- Nothing about a disability or a condition is asked online; adjustments are arranged with you in writing, before you come
Not known yet, and not guessed
- Which door you use, and whether the route from the street to the studio floor is step-free
- Toilets and changing space
- Parking, drop-off and cycle storage
Each is written here as soon as it is settled, and before the timetable opens.
On the floor
Getting on and off the carriage is the first thing taught at orientation, at your pace, before anything else happens on the machine. The instructor sets every machine, and anything that changes how it should be set for you, an adjustment for a disability included, is talked through in person at the welcome conversation.
Mat classes and private sessions are there as well as reformer groups, and an intro session can be for two people who come together. Under the Equality Act 2010 the studio makes reasonable adjustments: say what you need when you ask for an intro session, or by email with “Access” in the subject.
This website
EXTREME PILATES LTD wants everyone to be able to use this website and its member account. The standard aimed at is level AA of WCAG 2.2, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Every figure below was measured on 13 November 2026, the day this statement was written, against the site exactly as it was then served.
You should be able to: zoom the text to twice its size; reach every link, button and form field with a keyboard alone, starting from a “Start at the stopper” link that skips to the content; use the site with a screen reader; read every page at 320 pixels wide; and use the member account and the planned week without JavaScript.
What was tested, with the numbers
- Widths
- Each of the 23 pages measured at four widths, from a 390-pixel phone through 820 and 1280 to a 1600-pixel desktop, and the newest ones at 320 as well: none scrolled sideways at any of them, and no link on them led to a missing page.
- Colour schemes
- Each page opened twice, once with the phone or computer asking for a light scheme and once for a dark one: the site declares a dark scheme and paints its own dark ground in both, so neither setting turns it into a different site. An automated check of navigation buttons, type sizes and form controls found nothing to fix on any page, in either setting.
- Contrast over pictures
- Wherever text sits on a picture, the darkest 5% of readings were measured against the text colour at four widths: the lowest was 5.0:1, clear of the 4.5:1 floor that level AA sets for ordinary text.
- Controls
- No navigation item is a bare word: each is drawn as a button before you touch it, never under 44 pixels high. Form fields all carry labels, and a mistake is announced as an alert.
- Motion
- With reduced motion set, the moving reformer drawing and the drifting pictures stand still and the page loses nothing.
- Time limits
- A form left open for more than two hours is not sent, to keep robots out; it comes back with your answers kept, passwords excepted.
Known limits
- The site is dark only. There is no light version; a browser’s own high-contrast or forced-colours mode is respected.
- The spring drawings in the colour translator show colour as colour. Every swatch also carries the colour’s name and its rung number in words.
- Changing the spring colour translator needs JavaScript; without it, it shows one worked example in full.
- The member account needs one cookie to keep you signed in.
- This statement has not yet been checked by an outside auditor or by people using assistive technology every day. That is planned before the studio opens.
Ask for another format, or tell the studio what failed
If something on this site does not work for you, or you would like a page sent to you as plain text, or set in large print, write with “Access” in the subject and say what you were trying to do. You get an answer inside two working days.
Should the reply not settle it, free advice on access for disabled people is available from the Equality Advisory and Support Service: equalityadvisoryservice.com. Enforcing the Equality Act 2010 across Great Britain falls to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.