Management Of Abbreviations And Acronyms

Law 4/2004, and in particular the Technical Check, don't mention abbreviations and acronyms. However, the W3C - WAI Guidelines do, they are necessary to satisfy of point 4.2: " Specify the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym in a document where it first occurs." Idea Futura's FlexCMP experts retain that, when it comes to internet sites, talking about "where it first occurs" is an incongruity. Sites are hypertexts which can be consulted by jumping from link to link and avoiding a linear use of the contents. This is why we think it is more useful to undo abbreviations and acronyms in every point. FlexCMP has an automatic function which manages abbreviations and acronyms (even in more than one language) based on a dictionary. This means that individual editors don't have to carry out the time consuming task of defining, word for word, every acronym's equivalent. The choice of which acronym or abbreviation to manage is left to the editorial team and to the discretion of the editors.