British Acupuncture Council

Welcome to the British Acupuncture Council's web site. This web site provides information about the British Acupuncture Council, which is the main association representing and regulating professional acupuncturists in Great Britain. This web site provides information about the work of the British Acupuncture Council in promoting research and safe and ethical practice, what to expect during an acupuncture treatment, and an online practitioner search engine.

If you are reading this, it is because you are using a web browser unable to use cascading style sheets or javascript, or they are turned off. The web site is designed for these and is viewable with all browser versions from MS Explorer 4, Netscape Navigator 4, Opera7 and upwards. However, the site content is intended to be accessible using text only browsers, text-to-speech and other assistive technology for the disabled. Accesskeys are available for quick navigation - press Alt 0 and enter for a listing. Accesskey S tabs directly to page content.

British Acupuncture Council, 63 Jeddo Road, London, W12 9HQ, UK. Tel: 020 8735 0400

Accessibility Statement

The World Wide Web has the potential to offer access to information for all. Unfortunately, some design techniques can act as an effective barrier to access for some disabled people. Many disabled people use assistive technology, such as text to speech browsers, which require error-free standards-compliant web pages in order to work properly. This website has been developed in order to avoid this problem as far as possible. It has been designed in accordance with principles developed by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative.

Specifically, this site is intended to achieve at least level A conformance to the Web Accessibility Initiative's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and adhere to standards for XHTML and CSS set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

As a result, this website is best viewed in a web browser that supports the latest W3C standards, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, or Netscape Navigator 9. If you use an older browser, you will still be able to access all the information on the site, but the layout may not be as was intended by the designer.

You can read more about web accessibility at:
Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. In Windows, you can press ALT + an access key (and ENTER if using MS Explorer). On a Macintosh, you can press CTRL + an access key.

All pages use most of the UK Government standard access keys (numerics) with additional letter keys for other areas, as follows:

Access key S: Skip navigation
Access key 1: Home page
Access key 3: Site Map
Access key 8: Site Policy
Access key 9: Contact Us
Access key 0: Accessibility statement
Access key K: Acupuncture
Access key U: About Us
Access key P: Practitioner Search
Access key M: Members Area
Access key L: Students Area
Access key R: Research
Access key D: Downloads (Information)
Access key B: BAAB (Training)

Standards compliance

All pages on this site are Bobby AA approved, complying with all Priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
All pages on this site are A-Prompt AA verified,a program developed jointly by the University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre and the TRACE Center at the University of Wisconsin.
All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict or Transitional
All pages on this site are valid CSS
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles. Tables are only used for tabular information and not for visual layout.

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Visual design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
The content of this site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified 'text size' option in visual browsers.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Accessibility references

W3C accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
W3C accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
W3C accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

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