Quick summary: Web browsers can help translate languages on websites, but they’re not perfect.
The problem:
You want to know the best way to make your website available to people in many languages.
The discussion:
Kudos to you, because this is a great way to think about inclusivity. Making your website open to more people is also a dimension of accessibility.
Automated tools
There are a handful of web tools that automatically translate content on websites. They might not catch the context, idioms, or acronyms, and sometimes they even mess up basic translations.
Instead, here are four suggestions to help make your website content more inclusive.
Keep learning
- Lost in Translation, Digital.gov
- Why automatic translation is not always a good idea, eTranslationservices.com
- The troubled state of screen readers in multilingual situations, Medium.com