Did you know that Thursday May 19, 2022, is the 11th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day? What is accessibility (and inclusion) and how do they intertwine and overlap with language services and localization? We’ll start our chat off with a discussion of this question both from a general perspective and specifically within your individual organizations.
Why does Hispanic Heritage Month start in the middle of September and why is called Hispanic Heritage and not Latino or Latinx Heritage Month? We’ll find out this week in our Globalization Group discussion. Then we’ll look at a what some corporations such as Mattel (Barbie, once again!) and Google are doing in honor of…
After a few weeks of detouring to other topics, we’re back to our favorite topic this week: China. We’ll look at China’s plan to create a karaoke blacklist, banning songs that are out of tune with the party line (Ain’t no party like the communist party…) and then study the Chinese crackdown on private tutoring…