Your website has an AI translation. Can a visitor find their language?
Someone opens a booking link on a borrowed phone and lands on a page they can't read. A menu labelled ‘Languages’ in that same unfamiliar language may not help much. If AI helped you translate a small business website, I'd check the route to the translation before polishing another paragraph. W3C's existing internationalization guide recommends links on every page, with language names written in the language they lead to: français, for example, rather than only French. It also advises against country flags for translations. A country and a language aren't interchangeable. I'd open a booking page directly on a phone, rather than start at the homepage, and ask someone who reads the target language to find their version without coaching. Then follow the next link. Does the site keep their choice, or put them back into the language they just left? W3C also warns against guessing reading language from location. Travelling shouldn't mean having to fight a website to read it. This is a check I'd borrow from existing web guidance, not a test of an AI translation service. The translation still needs its own review. But a carefully translated page behind an unrecognizable menu leaves the visitor stuck before they can read a word.
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