Global Talk

UK Chapter of STC. 10/11 November 2007, Manchester, England. Details on the STC Forum: http://stcforum.org/viewtopic.php?pid=4163#p4163

On the news page at http://www.smh.com.au click the “show site sections” widget near the top middle to see “all site” navigation.

This technical is also used at http://amazon.com (mouse over the “See all 41 product categories” tab) and http://thottbot.com (mouse over the category links below the search box).

Some European news websites have begun to show the entire homepage at the bottom of each article.

Examples are:

French: http://www.20minutes.fr/article/184129/Monde-L-emissaire-special-de-l-ONU-recoit-un-visa-pour-la-Birmanie.php

Swedish: http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.858431/robban-hjalper-dig-bli-av-med-telefonforsaljarna

Norvegian: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article2018950.ece  

When you visit a website, where do you expect to find the feature to change the geographic location? Do you have a preference for where this feature is on a site? There are various locations on popular websites:

• At the bottom of the page (http://www.apple.com and http://www.dell.com and http://www.bmw.com)
• At the top right corner (http://www.microsoft.com and http://www.adobe.com)
• Right hand column (http://www.bp.com)
• Pop-up after recognizing the location by the IP address (http://www.ebay.com)

ITC SIG member Huiping Iler published the article “It’s in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website” in Digital Web magazine in January, 2007. Thanks to Karen Mardahl for the link.

Seth Gottlieb has proposed levels of website localization:
http://contenthere.blogspot.com/2006/11/levels-of-localization.html

What would you add or take away?

Karen Mardahl provided the information in this article assembled by Global Talk. The information is from the 19 June 2006 issue of IST Results (news from the EU Information Society Technologies program) in an article titled “A common approach to accessibility for all.”

The article discusses efforts to harmonize the methodologies for achieving the goal of accessible websites. These efforts include: (more…)