Accessibility

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Where we stand

We want anyone who wants to cook with us to be able to. This page says what the kitchen and this website can do today, what they cannot, and what nobody has checked yet.

We do not claim conformance to WCAG at any level, and no independent auditor has tested this site. What we have is our own check, run in August 2026 against the code that builds these pages and against the room itself. Several things came back badly. Most of those have been fixed and the fixes are described below; the ones that are still wrong are listed near the end, with numbers where we have them. A statement that lists no problems is not a statement, it is an advert.

Where we have not measured something, we say we have not measured it rather than guess. Where we have made a promise, we mean to keep it. If anything here turns out to be wrong, tell us and we will fix it rather than argue about it.

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Getting to the door

• —Parking is on site and free. No charge, no permit, no walk from a lot down the street.
• —The route from the parking to the kitchen floor is step-free. There are no stairs on it.
• —The restroom is on the same floor as the kitchen. No stairs between the two.
• —The office is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5, and there is someone in the building at those times. Classes run Tuesday to Friday evenings and Saturday and Sunday mornings and late afternoons.

Those first three lines are our own description of our own building. We walked the route and wrote down what we saw. Nobody with a survey qualification has checked it, and there is no certificate behind it. We are telling you that because a person who needs the route to work should know how good the evidence is before they get in the car — Visit has the drive times, and some of them are over an hour.

If the route has to work, please read the next section before you set off.

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What we have not measured

Nobody has put a tape measure on the numbers that actually decide whether a room works for a wheelchair, a walker, a service dog or anyone who needs to sit down. So we cannot tell you, today:

• —The clear width of the doorway, and whether the threshold has any rise in it.
• —The turning space in the restroom, and whether there are grab rails.
• —Whether the parking outside includes a marked accessible bay with an access aisle beside it.
• —The height of the benches, and the knee and toe clearance underneath them.
• —The surface of the lot, and how well the route reads after dark — which is when most classes run.

That is a worse answer than a published measurement and a much better one than a made-up measurement. Taking the whole list properly and putting the figures on this page is work we have not done. It is on the list.

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In the class

• —Eight seats, one instructor. Nobody is watching from the back and there is time for one-to-one help with any technique, at whatever pace you need it.
• —A seated station can be set up for you. Tell us when you ask for a quote and we will talk it through before you book — what the class involves, what is hot, what has to be reached and from where.
• —You are welcome to bring a support worker or a companion at no charge. Say so in your request so there is a place set for them at the table.
• —Recipe cards are printed for every class. Ask and we will print yours in large type.
• —We teach out loud and by demonstration. If you lip-read and need the instructor facing you, or you want the steps written down before we start, ask and we will do that.

What we will not do is promise in advance that all eight classes work seated. Two of them involve reaching things that are dangerously hot: Cast Iron & Live Fire works over coals and in the wood-fired oven, and Ozark Preserving works over a boiling-water bath and a pressure canner. We would rather have a five-minute conversation about those than sell you a seat and find out on the night. For everything else, a seated setup is a matter of moving a bench and a stool.

If you use a hearing loop, a live transcript, or something we have not thought of, ask before you book. We will tell you honestly whether we can do it. The answer arrives faster at quote time than at the door, and it is usually easier to arrange than people expect. What the class asks of you physically is set out in Safety & allergens.

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Service animals

Service animals are welcome. You will not be asked for paperwork and you will not be asked what your disability is. By service animal we mean a dog trained to do work or perform tasks for a person with a disability.

Here is the honest part. The whole room is a food preparation area. There is open flame at the fire class, a hot pan at every station, knives at bench height, and things get dropped on the floor because that is what a working kitchen is like. None of that is a reason to turn a service animal away and we will not. It is a very good reason to talk to us first.

• —Tell us when you ask for a quote. We will put you at a station where the dog can lie clear of the walking line and away from the fire, and we will tell the rest of the class to leave it alone.
• —Pets and emotional support animals are a different thing, and they cannot come into the kitchen. If that rules out a class you wanted, call us and we will work out what else is possible.
• —The only reasons we would ask a dog to go out are the two everyone agrees on: it is out of control and you cannot get it back under control, or it is not housebroken. Even then, you stay and finish the class.

If a health inspector ever tells us something different, we will say so on this page rather than spring it on you at the door.

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If you would need help getting out

A room with live fire in it needs an answer to this, and we would rather write it down here than improvise it at seven in the evening.

If you would need help leaving the building quickly, tell us before you book. We will plan it with you: which station you work at, which way you go, and who is beside you. Getting the room out is the instructor’s job, not yours and not the other students’.

We do not assume that a support worker or companion you bring will take that on. If you would rather they did, tell us and we will agree it in advance. The rest of what happens in an emergency — burns, cuts, the fire itself — is in Safety & allergens.

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Booking without using the form

The quote form on Classes is the only form on this website, and it is not the only way to book. If it does not work for you — a screen reader, a switch, a magnifier, a tremor, a bad day, or simply preferring to speak to a person — call +1 (417) 962-8474 during office hours and we will take the whole request over the phone. Every question the form asks, we can ask you out loud. Email works too: hello@culinaryteaching.com.

You are not missing anything by not using it. There is no checkout, no cart, no account, no login and no payment page anywhere on this site. Nobody types card details here. You settle at the door by card or cash, and a request made by phone is handled exactly like a typed one, at the same price and with the same reply time — one business day either way. How a quote becomes a class is in Terms.

The form has a box that asks whether there is anything we should know, and people use it to tell us about allergies and health needs. Whether you type that or say it on the phone, it is handled the way Privacy describes, and you can ask for it back or ask us to delete it through Your data & choices.

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This website, and what is not on it

The largest single source of accessibility trouble on a small business website is the things bolted onto it. This site has none of them.

• —A Termly cookie banner on the first visit, and a Cookie Settings control in the footer so you can change the choice without hunting.
• —No analytics, no tag manager, no advertising or social pixels, no A/B testing tool, no session recorder.
• —An optional tawk.to chat widget that stays blocked until you allow it. No newsletter interstitial, no captcha, no age gate.
• —No embedded map, no embedded video, no social embed, no audio that starts by itself.
• —No login, no account, no password to reset.
• —The four typefaces are downloaded when the site is built and served from this site, so nothing waits on a font arriving from somewhere else.

Two things do leave your browser while you are reading a page here. Sending the quote form sends what you typed to us. And the company that serves these pages sees the request that fetched them, as any host does — your address on the internet, your browser, the page and the time — and keeps its own ordinary logs. We add no logging of our own, we get no reports from it, and we build nothing on it. Cookies & storage and Trust & security go through both in full.

What we did put in

• —A skip link. Press Tab on any page and the first thing you reach is a link straight to the content, so you do not have to walk through the logo and the navigation every time.
• —Everything you can click is a real button or a real link, so the Tab key reaches all of it. There are no clickable boxes pretending to be controls.
• —The keyboard focus ring is a visible orange outline, and it is forced site-wide so that no individual field can switch it off. That was a real fault and it is fixed.
• —Every image that carries meaning has a description. Decorative graphics are hidden from screen readers instead of being read out as noise.
• —If the quote form is missing something it says what, in words rather than in colour, moves your cursor to the field that needs attention, and marks that field as the one in error rather than leaving it to the message alone.
• —Tables in these legal documents are real tables, with a caption and column headings a screen reader can announce.
• —The page language is set, every page has its own title, and every section of these documents has its own number and its own link.
• —On a phone, opening the menu moves you into it, keeps the Tab key inside it while it is open, closes on Escape, and puts you back on the button you came from.
• —Panels that are folded shut — the course tracks, the questions on Pricing — are properly closed rather than just clipped, so a screen reader does not read you the contents of a panel you did not open.

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Motion

There is a motion control in the footer of every page: Full, Calm, Off. Your choice is remembered in your browser, and it is the only thing this site stores. It stores the setting, not you — see Cookies & storage.

If your system asks for reduced motion, the site starts on Off and says so beside the buttons. The buttons stay there either way, so you can also turn motion back up if that is what you actually want. A setting on your machine is a sensible default, not a decision we should be making for you.

Off means off. The animation written in CSS stops, and so do the page transitions and the smooth scrolling. The scrolling strip of text stops. The turning technique wheel stops. The two animated background washes — the ember behind the heading at the top of every page, and the dissolve band on the home page — draw a single still frame and then stop, so the page still looks as it was designed to and nothing is moving.

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Text size and zoom

Zooming the page in your browser works. Page zoom scales the type along with everything else, so the whole layout grows together.

Raising the default font size in your browser settings does not work. Every type size on this site is written in fixed pixels, and not one of them in the units that follow your default — so a person who has set their default to 24 pixels sees no change here at all. Zoom is a genuine workaround and most people use it, but it is not the same thing and we are not going to describe it as if it were.

Some labels are small: 58 of those sizes sit between 9.5 and 10.5 pixels, mostly the small capitals used for eyebrows, the footer and captions. If any of it is unreadable, call and we will read it to you. Converting the type scale so it follows your browser default is on the list, and it is a bigger job than it sounds.

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Contrast, measured

Our check measured the contrast of the text and controls against what they sit on, against the 4.5 to 1 that ordinary text is meant to reach and the 3 to 1 that the outline of a control is meant to reach. Several things failed the first time round. Those have been changed, and these are the figures as they stand now.

The motion-control ring was the last measured fail. It has been raised. If there is anything on this site you cannot make out, call and we will read it to you or take your request down over the phone.

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The rest of what our check found

What used to sit here has been fixed on 21 August 2026: pricing and courses heading levels (screen-reader h2s; track titles as h3), kitchen captions on a dark chip, ticker pause on keyboard focus, legal table of contents aria-current, motion-control outline, and arrow-key rotation on the technique wheel. The list is empty on purpose. If a new failure turns up, it goes back here with a number.

• —Nothing currently outstanding from the August 2026 check, other than converting the type scale from fixed pixels to units that follow the browser default — still on the list, still a bigger job than a contrast pass.

Fixing something here does not mean it disappears from this page. It moves up into the list of what we did, and the date and version at the top of the document change so you can tell.

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Tell us when something is in the way

If any part of the kitchen, a class, or this website gets in your way, tell us. We would much rather hear it than have you give up quietly.

Call +1 (417) 962-8474 during office hours, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5, or write to hello@culinaryteaching.com at any hour. Tell us what you were trying to do and what happened. If it is about a page on this site, the address of the page helps.

We reply within one business day — the same commitment as a quote request. If it is something we can fix, we say when. If it is something we cannot fix quickly, we say that plainly and offer another way to get you the same result, which usually means doing it over the phone or in person instead. There is no complaints department in a business this size: it goes to the owner, and the owner answers it.

We recheck this page whenever the site changes and at least once a year either way. The date this version took effect is at the top of the document, above section one.

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Contact

Culinary Teaching LLC · 931 Garst St, Cabool, MO 65689 · +1 (417) 962-8474 · hello@culinaryteaching.com · the rest of the set is on Legal.