Posted in accessibility, internationalization on Mar 17th, 2008
Over at Yahoo! changes have been made to the search so that it now has natural language search results. This is great news on two counts as this supports both internationalisation and accessibility so readers in languages other than the main language of the page can access content as well as screen and braille readers.
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Posted in internationalization on Mar 15th, 2008
At SXSW this year there was a lot of talk about internationalization and global web design. One recurrent theme debated in panels such as Taking Over the World: the Flickr Way, Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons and Glenda Sim’s and my core conversation on Global Design: Web Sites for [...]
Posted in internationalization on Mar 6th, 2008
Come and join Glenda Sims and I as we host a Core Conversation on Global Design: Web Sites for the World:
Internationalization? Localization? Beyond these clumsy buzzwords is the global reality. Hear world designers and developers share firsthand experiences with international best practices and Web standards. Learn technical infrastructure principles for creating sites with the [...]
Posted in internationalization on Mar 6th, 2008
Google desktop recently moved out of beta and added Thai and Indonesian to it’s language bank bringing the total of translations up to 31. If you don’t already use Google Desktop it’s worth checking out as it allows you to carry out text searches of your emails, computer files, music, photos, chats, web pages viewed [...]
Posted in internationalization on Feb 27th, 2008
So what does happen if you’re an Arabic speaker and you naturally expect to be able to write a search query from right to left? You’re sort of stuck and have to work with writing from left to right. Not any more however if you’re a Google user. If you’re using a supported local interface [...]
