Multilingual website assessment for accessibility: a survey on current practices
Multilingual website assessment for accessibility: a survey on current practices
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多语言网站的可访问性评估：对当前实践的调查
DOI：
10.1145/2513383.2513428
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发表时间：
2013
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A. Bolfing
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作者：
Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez;A. Bolfing
当单语言网站变成多语言时，在整个本地化过程中所达到的可访问程度可能会有所不同。本文概述了一项调查的结果，旨在探索在专门评估多语言网站的可访问性时遵循的当前做法。受访者 (N=67) 是在该领域拥有至少两年经验的网络可访问性专家。虽然我们的工作没有得出结论性的结果，但研究结果表明，目前的多语言网站评估实践并不遵循标准化模式，而且花在文本和文化相关元素上的时间相当少，这些元素仍然是网页中的关键信息资产。该研究还揭示了成功实现提供多种语言版本的无障碍网站所需的本地化相关知识和技能。
The accessibility degree achieved in a monolingual website may vary throughout the localization process, when it is made multilingual. This paper overviews the results of a survey conducted with the aim of exploring current practices followed when specifically assessing multilingual websites for accessibility. Respondents (N=67) were web accessibility experts with at least two years of experience in the field. While our work does not return conclusive results, findings suggest that multilingual website assessment practices, as they stand today, do not follow a standardized pattern, and time spent on textual and culture-related elements, which still remain key information assets within a webpage, is considerably low. The study also sheds light on the need of localization-related knowledge and know-how to successfully achieve accessible websites where more than one language version is available.