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Software and Game Localisation|
App Store Listing Text: Name, Description and Character Limits
Before users download your app, the store page is all they see. We set out the limits and…
Localisation|
What Is Pseudo-Localisation? Finding Faults Before Translation
Pseudo-localisation tests an interface with fake text before translation begins; it exposes overflowing boxes, broken writing direction and…
Visa News|
Document Translation and the Certification Chain in a Dutch MVV Application
In the MVV process for the Netherlands, how official documents are translated and which form of certification they…
Digital Products and Accessibility|
Alt Text Localisation: What Does a User Who Cannot See the Image Read?
The alt attribute behind an image is the only text a screen reader speaks aloud. If it is…
Digital Products and Accessibility|
What Is Universal Design? Why Accessibility Cannot Be Added Later
Design for all aims to make products usable by as many people as possible without the need for…
Digital Products and Accessibility|
What Is Genre Embedding? How Many Text Types Sit on a Single Page?
A product page is not a single text. Inside it there is a description, a specification, a legal…
Digital Products and Accessibility|
What Is Digital Text? Three Ways Screen Text Differs from Print
In the user’s eyes your website is a single text, yet it is translated across hundreds of separate…
Localisation|
The Impact of Technology on Localisation: Macro and Micro Layers
Technological change affects localisation on two separate levels. Macro effects give rise to new media and platforms, while…
Visa News|
Translation in a Canadian immigration application: what kind of translation does IRCC want
The logic behind certified translation and the translator’s declaration in IRCC applications, the point that applicants from Türkiye…
Localisation|
What Is Localisation Studies? The Birth of a Field of Research
Localisation studies is a sub-discipline of translation studies. We look at how the field came into being, how…
Terminology Management|
What Is Subject-Field Coding? The Subject Label That Ties a Term to the Right Meaning
Short codes such as AUTO, SEMI and NUCL tell you at a glance which sense of a term…
Localisation|
The LISA QA Model: The First Standard That Scored Localisation Quality
The LISA QA model was the first to measure localisation quality with a standard score, and it is…