Even as consumer programs like Skype Translator are making it easier for people speaking different languages to communicate, governments are struggling to make information available to non-English speakers.

A presentation from the Department of Labor last year underscored that complying with anti-discrimination laws includes providing information in other languages to non-English speaking individuals in the community, including those speaking less-common languages. These translation requirements can include paper documents, webpages, online applications, texts, tweets and other social media.

“It is seldom, if ever, sufficient to use machine translation without having a human who is trained in translation available to review and correct the translation to ensure that it is conveying the intended message,” the presenters wrote. More.

See: GCN

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