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/
>
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