The first occurrence of an abbreviation or acronym in the body of each Content Document provides access to its meaning.

SIG, VAT, AVT, DTC, XML… abbreviations, acronyms and acronyms abound on the Web, particularly in technical and administrative fields. By explaining them, you are doing your users a great service and improving your SEO.

Objectives

• Allow the user to quickly access the meaning of an acronym.
• Allow the exploitation of the content by a robot (for the establishment of an index of acronyms).
• Promote content SEO.
• Improve the accessibility of content to people with disabilities.

Implementation

At least when an acronym, acronym or abbreviation first appears on the page, you should ensure that you use at least one of the methods below: Explain its meaning within the text itself, for example: “a DTD (document type declaration)”. Provide a link giving access to its meaning in a glossary page or via dynamic display (JavaScript tooltip). Mark up with the HTML element abbr and fill in its title attribute to indicate its meaning. Good practice only makes this requirement for the first occurrence on the page: this may or may not be done for subsequent occurrences.

Control

Validation

• Needs to be human verified.