I have long been an advocate for localization (even if I am somewhat behind with translating the older content on this site into French). It’s a fair assumption that, most of the time, readers would prefer to access content in their own language. But you have limited resources, so which natural (not computer) languages should you support?
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I’ve long been an advocate of localization, which is why it was important for me to make this site multi-lingual. But I’ve been an advocate of accessibility for even longer. So I really should have done an analysis on the site long before now, and for that I apologize. People tend to think that web accessibility is about disability, if they think about it at all. And then they do a quick mental calculation that goes something like: “How many users with disabilities am I going to have and how much time and money is it going to cost to make my site accessible?” And then, unless they are mandated to by law, they tend to do nothing.
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