The outcome
Publish a translation that preserves meaning, terminology, formatting, accessibility, and legal approval.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Identify the authoritative source, target locale, audience, purpose, terminology, tone, privacy class, file features, reviewers, and legal or safety risk.
- 02
Clean ambiguous source language, freeze approved copy, protect variables and markup, build a reviewed glossary, and preserve an untouched original.
- 03
Translate a representative section with the correct locale, formality, glossary, and document mode, then resolve terminology and formatting before the full run.
- 04
Have a qualified reviewer check every omission, qualifier, number, unit, name, link, term, tone, cultural issue, table, note, and required warning against the source.
- 05
Run final layout and accessibility QA, obtain owner and language approval, version source and translation, and document machine assistance and future update ownership.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Freeze the authoritative source first.
- Use a reviewed glossary.
- Require native review for high-stakes copy.
Official references