How Quality is Assured
To deliver superior quality translations, I follow a clearly defined quality assurance process. Specifically, I will do the following for each job:
- Ask questions even before commencing translation to find out what your needs are. Once identified, your needs will
- guide me throughout the translation process.
- Make sure I have all the terminology required to complete the translation. I will consult your provided glossary/term base and/or research any additional terminology using available resources such as dictionaries, any area experts I know, translators’ forums and discussion groups on the Web, and other Web resources.
- Translate the original text using all of my knowledge, experience, skills, and available resources. This includes ALL translatable elements, such as headers/footers, captions, labels, etc.
- Check the translation. Among others, I will:
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- Check the very text of my translation, including terminology, accuracy, grammar, etc.
- Make sure the translation is complete (no portions of the original left).
- Check the translation for spelling, double space, and punctuation errors.
- Make sure language- and culture-sensitive items like date/time formats, units of measure, proper names, etc., follow the rules of the target language/culture.
- Make sure the font formatting (type face and style, such as bold, italics and/or underline) matches that of the original.
- Make sure the layout (margins, table formatting, paragraphs) matches that of the original.
- Have the final version of my translation proofread by my colleague, a professional proofreader. The proofreading stage is mainly linguistic (accuracy, grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.).
- Give the proofread translation a final read-through to ensure superior quality.
- Send back the file(s) to you, following any handback instructions you provide.
*For web site translations:
If an all-in-one web site translation service is requested, step 6 above is followed by extensive testing of the translated and compiled web site on a local server. The final web site is thenuploaded to your web server, following any upload instructions you provide.