Case study: localization of an accessibility evaluation

  • Authors:
  • Michael Cooper;Piotr Rejmer

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Applied Special Technology, Peabody, MA;Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

During the localization process of Bobby [1], a Web tool analyzing accessibility, we have encountered technical and human issues due to major cultural and language differences affecting the user interface:• Bobby could not handle multiple byte encoding,• in order to understand differences and in the design of the GUI for a global audience we had to account for cultural issues such as uncertainty avoidance.Successful localization of this product has required attention to novel technical and human issues.