Have you considered localizing your alt tags?

Social media round-up for April 15, 2016

We read an article in Home Business Magazine about the limitations to automation in translation.
Huffington Post published “5 tips to help your kids learn a second language fast.”
Binary Symantics made us feel smart and nerdy with “Two main parts of globalization are localization and internationalization.”
You’ve #localized your webpage, but have you considered localizing your alt tags? SEO Round Table made us want to go look at all of the alt tags.
An on point and quite interesting academic paper showed up in Growing Science about brand equity and localization strategy. A case study!
This week’s xkcd spoke to us https://xkcd.com/1443/.
Alaskan senate pages get their own custom, traditional kuspuks (super cool) and the entire state senate makes a nod to Alaskan first people.
The Economist posted an article on the benefits of stretching your brain by working in a second language, “advantages of working in your own language are obvious. Those of working in a foreign one are subtle.”
About World Languages posted a nice essay about the beauty and utility of the Germanic branch of languages.
Useful and fun (and did we spot The BFG in there?) handy linguistic lexicon from Babel magazine.
We’ve never spoken a secret language besides Pig Latin (otney osay ecretsay?) But we did enjoy this piece on secret languages from The Guardian.