Website localization is crucial for reaching a global audience. Localizing your website properly allows companies to tap into new markets and engage with customers in their native language. Partnering with expert translators, rather than leaving the translation to the whims of the browser, can help companies stay ahead of the competition.
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Blog Publishing in Multiple Languages Made Easy
by Cintia de Melo Dias Kanowitz
This is a guest post from one of ProZ.com's advertising partners, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Read MoreWhat Meets the Eye: Design Differences and Effective Translation
This is a guest post from one of ProZ.com's advertising partners, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
By: Kyle Chow
What’s obvious to translators isn’t always so obvious to clients. I’ve found this to be especially true when encountering the impact of major design differences between the same online content in different languages. Helping our clients figure out how to navigate the design differences between cultures is one of the most valuable services we as translators can offer.
Read MoreThis is a guest post from one of ProZ.com's advertising partners, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
By: Emily Cipriani
Laptop with refreshable braille display [Photo by Elizabeth Woolner on Unsplash]
What is web accessibility—and how can you best incorporate it into your translation or localization content work?
Web accessibility is an inclusive practice that ensures that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them. My recent project with Olivia Plowman, my colleague in the MA in Translation and Localization Management program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, investigated web accessibility from a localizer’s perspective.
Here’s what you need to know.
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The people behind ProZ.com: Paul Urwin
The people behind ProZ.com: Julieta Llamazares
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The people behind ProZ.com: Ezequiel Flores
The people behind ProZ.com: Andrea Capuselli
Over a decade of ProZ.com localization
ProZ.com localization: A community effort to make ProZ.com accessible to everyone.
If you are non-native English speaker, you might have realized by now that ProZ.com is also available in over 60 other languages. This is possible thanks to ProZ.com localizers, site members who have volunteered their efforts and skills to help the community.
ProZ.com localization started in 2006, with the goal of making ProZ.com accessible for non-English speaking language professionals. Over a decade has passed, and today, ProZ.com is being localized into 84 languages. Some of the areas that have been localized so far include...
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