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Re: Effort and time required to translate WCAG 2.0 guidelines into a new language?

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From: John Foliot
Date: Jun 6, 2011 6:18PM

Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
>
> My rather small and financially ravished country of Iceland (with that
> volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, that nobody can pronounce, English Jaws
> does not do it justice), is finally waking up to thoughts of better
> eGovernment services and accessibility.
>
> It is possible there may be some funding to translate the WCAG 2.0
> standard as part of improved accessibility legislation.
> Since I am prettymuch the only one who has been dealing with
> accessibility issues I suspect I may be asked to do the translation,
> if this becomes a reality.
>
> Can anyone on this list inform me on how much time (approx) it might
> take to do the translation of the package, and what the process is
> like to make such translation official?
>
> I will review the WAI information page, of course, but figured pehaps
> someone who has done this translation in person might give me (and
> other listers) tips and thoughts on the process.
> Be well.

Hi Birkir,

Have you spoken with Shadi Abou-Zahra at the W3C? I am copying Shadi on
this note, and I am sure he could give you some very good metrics on that
question, and might be able to assist you in other ways as well (i.e. how
to see them through to "official" as opposed to unofficial translations).
From what I can see, the guidelines have already been officially
translated into two other Nordic languages already (Swedish and Norwegian)
as well as Russian - I'm not sure if any of those would be of any
assistance in your efforts. (See:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/translations)

Good luck!

JF
===========================John Foliot
Program Manager
Stanford Online Accessibility Program
http://soap.stanford.edu
Stanford University
Tel: 650-468-5785

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