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In an earlier guest post today, titled Toward a Multilingual Web Site: Easy First Steps, Brian McConnell, of Worldwide Lexicon and DerMundo, outlined some of the first steps you can take if you want to make a web site accessible in other languages, including open source resources. In this follow-up post, Brian provides many specific tools and sites you can visit for making the process easier. Are you familiar with Moses, Pootle and Apertium--all open source translation resources? Read on for part two in the series.

For many publishers and web app developers, from independent bloggers ?
to high volume sites, designing a site to be multilingual is an afterthought, often thought to be extremely difficult, writes Brian McConnell, of Worldwide Lexicon and DerMundo, in this guest post for OStatic. That's unfortunate because the world is a big place, and there's a lot of interesting content out there waiting to be read. Also accessibility in multiple languages is directly in the spirit of open source. Here are some easy first steps for helping make your site accessible in other languages, to be followed by several specific tools Brian has identified that you can use.