Activity 4: Translation

Use the Google Translate tool http://translate.google.com to translate one of your previous answers into another language. If you can speak in this language, how well did the tool translate the text? If not, copy the translation and use the translate tool to convert it back to English and say how well the tool did.

Try this with another language. Which language seemed to offer the better translation?
Use the ‘Translate a Web Page’ section to translate an entire website. Comment on what you found and the usefulness of machine translation tools.

Answer

Original text copied from http://gregsharp.weebly.com

For this exercise to test a site against the Section 508 Guidelines I chose the site I created using Weebly at http://gregsharp.weebly.comWhile Weebly is capable of building a site easily it is missing a lot of features that a professional web developer would expect to find in their editor of choice. As a result sites built using Weebly are not Section 508 compliant.To give authors the ability to produce valid 508 compliant sites extra features need to be added such as the ability to add alt text attribute for graphics when added to a site. For example the error returned by CynthiaSays for my Weebly site home page is “Failure - img Element at Line: 34, Column: 47 - The element does not use the attribute: alt”.As Weebly does not allow direct editing of HTML it would be necessary to create an updated “Add Graphic” module, which has the capability to add the required alt text and submit it to Weebly for approval so that it could be made available to all users of Weebly. Undoubtedly if I investigated further I would find other faults with Weebly that cause sites to fail the Section 508 Guidelines.If interested you can download a PDF version of the site report by clicking the link below.”

Text after being translated into Spanish and back to English

“For this exercise to test a site against Section 508 Guidelines have chosen the site that I created on using Weebly http://gregsharp.weebly.comWhile Weebly is able to easily create a site is not a lot of features that a professional web developer would expect to find in the editor of your choice. As a result the sites built with Weebly are not compatible with Section 508.To give authors the ability to produce valid compatible 508 bonus sites are added, including the ability to add alt text for graphics attribute when added to a site. For example, the error returned by Weebly site CynthiaSays to my home page"If not - img Element at Line: 34 Column: 47 - The element does not use the attribute: alt.Weebly does not allow as direct editing of HTML would be necessary to create an "Add Chart" module, which has the ability to add alt text and submit it for approval andalusia Weebly so that it can be available to all users Weebly . Without a doubt I would be investigating whether other defects that make Weebly sites not to Section 508 guidelines.If you are interested you can download a PDF version of the site report by clicking on the link below.”

Same text after being translated from English to Japanese and back to English again

“In this exercise using the guidelines of the 508, I chose the Weebly http://gregsharp.weebly.com site created for the department, to test a siteAmong the features of the Weebly editor favorite of professional web developers can easily build a site that is missing many are expected to find. Results, Weebly section has been built using the 508 sites that are not compliant.Authors, the effective capacity and extra features needed to be able to generate 508 to conform to the site, alternative text attributes, such as adding graphics, when you add will be added to the site. Weebly CynthiaSays my error is returned to the home page of the site, for example"Failed - the image elements in line: 34 column: 47 - This element has the attribute: alt not in use."Weebly is updated "when the need to add alternative text to graphics Weebly have the capability to be provided to all users to accept" the need to create additional modules directly edit the HTML You are not allowed to Weebly. If more, I'm sure I Weebly, the site is investigating the cause of the Section 508 guidelines and fail, others will find fault.If the report is a site by clicking the link below interest you can download PDF version”

After completing this exercise I used Google’s Translate to translate my Weebly site, http://gregsharp.weebly.com from English to French, then translated the text produced back into English.

I was quite surprised at how good a job it did with the initial translation. Some points of note though –

     •    It did not translate some of the headings on the page into French
     •    After translating back to English every sentence was repeated twice


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