hi Ann, I just saw your mail and i would like to thank you for this info . yes i saw the original email and it is in the hands of some guys which are working to put up a list of the italian errors . i know that a guy called Tom will be getting in contact with the danish boy. now i will check how is it going and let you know . thank you again and hope to read from you soon . rossy p.s. please forgive me for the delay in answering your mail
Il giorno 02/giu/2010, alle ore 17.41, Søren Jensen ha scritto: > Hi all. > > I have some very good news to all none-english-speaking people who are using > VOiceover in other languages than english: > I've noticed that there are some very critical translation errors in the > danish version of Voiceover, which simply doesn't make sence, or which > totally confuse people. here is an example: > In the danish version of Voiceover, the dollar sign has been translated to > kr. which is our kind of money. This is a great idea, but it's a very big > issue when reading prices in online shops. You need to read character by > character to check if it's a dollar sign, or if it's shown kr. on the website > to make sure you've got the right price. > There are some other issues like this, and I contacted the Accessibility > team, and tried to explain the issues. I got a mail back where they wrote > they would send the mail to the right team. Well, I waited in two weeks... > Two weeks later, I got a mail from one of the guys who translate VOiceover > into other languages, and he said he will do the best to understand my issues > and fix the mis-translated words. We wrote some mails together, and finally, > we come up with a salution: > I should write a document, where I explained all the issues, write the > suggested translations and then send the document to the team, and then > they'll look at it. > I've now finnished the document, and now I need your help: > I've heard that some of the same issues also are in the Swedish and the > Norwegian versions of VOiceover. If some of you have found other issues in > other languages in Voiceover, please contact me off the list. > My plan is to send my document with the issues I've found in the danish > translation, and send it to you to see if the same issues are in your version > in your language. My goal is to find all issues in the translations of > Voiceover, explain them, come with suggested translations and get it all > fixed. > THe guy who have contacted me from the translation team is very friendly, and > is very interested to fix any errors. Therefore, it would be really great if > we could find all errors in all translations, and fix them to help people who > aren't very good at english. I'm running a danish mailinglist for visually > impaired Mac users, and it's not all who speak english there, which means > it's a big issue for them if Voiceover isn't translated correctly. > Here is what I need: > People who use Voiceover in an other language than english which also is an > experienced VOiceover user. > I need as many people as possible to get people who know as many languages as > possible. > If you are interested, please contact me off the list so we can continue the > discussion there, since I assume people who only use Voiceover in english > aren't very interested in this topic. If people who only speaks english are > interested in the topic, I'll of course continue the discussion here on the > list. > > I hope to hear from you... > Best regards > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > s...@coolfortheblind.dk > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
