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150: Empowering every translator: our commitment to inclusivity and accessibility (Part 2)
This episode of Globally Speaking celebrates 40 years of innovation from Trados Studio.
Paul Filkin, Senior Director of Customer Enablement at RWS, speaks to Anna Rita de Bonis, Software Accessibility Specialist and Trainer for the Visually Impaired at RWS, who explains how she has helped us challenge the translation industry by helping to make Trados Studio accessible to visually impaired language specialists. Hear about Anna Rita‘s experience as a blind user of Trados and other CAT tools in the second part of the episode.
The latest version of the industry-leading CAT tool, Studio 2024, includes exciting new features that improve accessibility, democratize access to generative AI and increase management capabilities. Learn more about it here: Trados
Guests
Anna Rita is a Software Accessibility Specialist and Trainer for the Visually Impaired at RWS, where she has been working since August 2023. She collaborates with several teams to ensure that all RWS products and services are accessible to blind users.
Anna Rita is currently engaged in the third year of a three-year PhD research project at University of International Studies of Rome - UNINT, focusing on making Trados Studio accessible for screen reader users.
She holds a three-year degree in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Trieste, where she specialized in French, Spanish, and Turkish. She furthered her education with a two-year master’s degree in Translation and Interpreting at UNINT.
Her professional experience includes localizing software and manuals for BrailleNote Touch+ with Humanware. Additionally, she is a JAWS Certified user, having received certification from Freedom Scientific.
In her previous roles, Anna Rita served as a Delegated Administrator for the organization VIEWS International and as a Board Member of the local section of UICI (Italian Union of the Blind and Partially Sighted).
Hosts
Paul is a Senior Director, Customer Enablement for RWS where he has worked since the end of 2006. These days he works with several teams who are all focused on the customer and what can be done to improve their experience, particularly but not exclusively, when using translation technology.
Paul has a Masters Degree in Business Administration, an HNC in Civil Engineering, is an ECQA Certified Terminology Manager (Advanced) and recently completed a TCLoc (Technical Communication and Localization) Masters degree…all reflecting a working career over the last 40 years which nicely support the challenges of working in the culturally and professionally diverse environment we see in the translation industry today.
He also regularly maintains a personal blog addressing many of the practical issues faced by translators and translation companies in using technology for their work (http://multifarious.filkin.com).
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