Language Quality Assurance QA review/QA evaluation
Language Quality Assurance is one of our central services delivered to our customers.
Almost every business tries to address their customers in writing, mostly trough the company website, newsletters and advertising booklets as well as presentation materials. Nevertheless, they often pay insufficient attention to the role of the language used for communicating their existing and prospective clients. In that case, they may expect that readers will sneer at their poorly translated or auto-translated texts, and it may compromise their reputation.
Language Quality Assurance is performed on translated texts with the aim of evaluating their linguistic quality according to the standard procedure which includes reporting all kinds of errors, classifying them according to the error type and severity and providing the overall opinion.
When performing QA, our task is not only to evaluate translation performed by other translator or company but we should always be ready to defend and explain our opinion in more detail when the translator objects to the reviewer’s evaluation. Therefore, it is especially important for the reviewer not to mix a true error with a personal preference.
Language Quality Assurance requires much higher qualification, longer experience and linguistic acrobacy from the language specialist than translation and editing. It is similar to continuous sharpening our intellectual tools therefore we especially love it.
Language Quality Assurance will help you to get free from problems caused by wrong or unnatural translations and will ensure good sleep at nights to our customers.
THE MAIN TYPES OF LQA REVIEWS WE PROVIDE AND INCLUDE
Web QA on live web pages
The customer usually provides the list of URLs to the respecive source pages and target pages. Errors are usually reported in a standard QA form. In general, errors are categorized in a similar way with some differences depending on the client.
Web QA on screen captures
Any screenshots are provided as jpg (image) files. As we know, this format does not allow copying any pasting the incorrect strings therefore any texts visible on the screenshots and containing errors should be rewritten manually in the QA form.
Web QA by using special QA tools
They help to arrange the source screen and target screen side by side thus ensuring more productive work and ability to view all localized strings in a context. Also, the reviewer can enter any error classifications, severity levels and comments in special cells without leaving the tool.
Help QA
Usually on HTML or XML files where the source and target files are aligned side by side for easier work by using a special program.
QA on simulated software screens
There all localized software strings can be viewed in UI context. These tools also ensure consistency check functionality which allows the reviewer to identify inconsistencies more easily. The errors may be reported in the same tool which also generates a summary report.
QA on bilingual files (e.g. ttx, itd, xlz, edb)
This is performed for any kinds of texts translated by using different CAT tools.
Thus, we can always help you to evaluate the quality of translations performed by the other language providers than LINGMASTER.