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Web Localization

Also known as: L10n, Website Localization

The process of adapting a website for a specific locale or target audience, going beyond translation to include cultural, visual, and technical elements such as date formats, colors, images, menu sizes, and page structure. In the context of accessibility, web localization professionals play a critical role in maintaining accessibility features — including text alternatives for images — across different language versions of a website, though this responsibility is often overlooked in localization workflows.

Category: Web Development · internationalization · content adaptation · multilingual accessibility

Related: Text Alternative · Internationalization

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