TRADUCOOPJan 18

New Year, New Endeavors: RSI Hosting, Recording, and Tech Support 🐙📖

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-year-endeavors-rsi-hosting-recording-tech-support-dwyer-ma-xgwde

#PuertoRico #MastodonPR #WorkerOwnedCoop #LSP #RSI #VRI #Interpretation #LanguageAccess #LanguageJustice

New Year, New Endeavors: RSI Hosting, Recording, and Tech Support

Happy New Year! 🥳 🥇 Before the holidays, we hosted and recorded our first Zoom meeting with professional remote simultaneous interpretation. We have been providing professional simultaneous interpreters to our clients for their remote conferences for several years, but it was our first time behind

The-14Jul 29, 2025
U.S. Government Agencies Eliminating Spanish Language Services Is Self-Inflicted Harm
#Trump #USA #LanguageAccess #SpanishServices #Spanish #English #Immigrants #ImmigrantRights #USGovernment #CivilRights #EquityInAccess #BilingualServices #HumanRights
https://the-14.com/u-s-government-agencies-eliminating-spanish-language-services-is-self-inflicted-harm/
That Word ChatApr 22, 2025
She was part of a generation that still had access to Latin in the public system. Latin cracked open a fascination with language that never left her.
#ThatWordChat #LanguageAccess #Linguistics
Benji MauerApr 15, 2025
I’m deeply enraged by the lack of native language support for Haitian Creole on iOS and Android. On iOS, though it does the right thing and provides Haitian Creole as a top level language (ht), it’s basically a localization of French, not transliterated Haitian Creole. On Android, even though Haitian Creole is an ISO language code, it’s not even an option. You can only select French, then a localization for Haiti. How can I select Esperanto but not Haitian Creole? #languageaccess #racism
Hacker NewsApr 10, 2025

National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers

https://apnews.com/article/weather-spanish-translation-noaa-nws-trump-71c727dbe2e4956247c9d9152494f1dc

#HackerNews #NationalWeatherService #WeatherTranslation #LanguageAccess #NonEnglishSpeakers #PublicSafety

NWS no longer translating products for non-English speakers

The National Weather Service is no longer providing translations of its products after its contract with an artificial intelligence company was allowed to lapse. It's a change that experts say could put non-English speakers at risk of missing warnings about extreme weather. A weather service spokesperson declined to comment on the lapse of the contract. It comes as the weather service's parent agency, NOAA, is among federal agencies targeted by the Trump administration for aggressive staff and budget cuts. Nearly 68 million people in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home, according to 2019 Census data.

AP News
PUPUWEB BlogDec 11, 2024
YouTube launches auto-dubbing feature, generating translated audio tracks for hundreds of thousands of knowledge and info-focused channels! A game-changer for global accessibility. #YouTube #AutoDubbing #TechNews #ContentCreation #LanguageAccess #GlobalReach #DigitalInnovation
Adrianna TanOct 14, 2024

I wrote a quick brief for public sector employees thinking about 'using AI for translations in everything'

https://news.publicsectorai.tech/archive/language-language-access-and-ai/

#AI #Language #Equity #LanguageAccess #PublicInterestTech #CivicTech #Government

League of Women Voters of SFOct 13, 2024

Multilingual ballots are critical for democracy — they help more people be confident voters!

Bonus: English +1 means any ballot can be used by English-speaking voters, reducing how many ballots need to be printed and saving $$$. And this way, all ballots are auditable in English.

https://lwvsf.org/vote

#SanFrancisco #SFBA #SFBay #SFElections #Vote #Democracy #SFpol #GOTV #Election #Election2024 #VotingRights #VoteReady #LanguageAccess #EveryVoteCounts #BeAVoter

LWVSF

We've got the unbiased, nonpartisan information you need to be a voter in the California special election on November 4, 2025.

LWVSF
Crystal Huff (they/them)Feb 26, 2024

I'm putting together a resource on composting with worms in order to have it translated into a few languages spoken in my city, and I plan to print copies to give away with composting worms on Earth Day. Anyone on here want to make suggestions about additional info that would be useful? Comments are open. #compost #EarthDay #LanguageAccess #SomerPoli #SomervilleMA

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IRu7H5wkFZp13k1hU75hDlqkGBKj1lRLV-ArG0xrOoA/edit?usp=sharing

Composting Worm Friends

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Migration Policy InstituteOct 20, 2023
What are federal agencies doing to ensure federal programs & those getting federal funds are meeting #languageaccess needs in their service delivery? White House & Department of Health and Human Services officials joined experts from the Migration Policy Institute and National Immigration Law Center to discuss these issues and what the future holds.
Watch or listen here: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/improving-language-access-federal-programs
Improving Language Access in Federal Programs: What Is the State of Play?

White House, Department of Health and Human Services, and national advocacy officials review executive-branch efforts related to language access provision, discuss upcoming actions, and explore opportunities to improve the provision of information and services in languages other than English in federal programs.

migrationpolicy.org