I was just reading an article on the tippecanoe county health department website and they mentioned that their website is now “bilingual”. I believe this means that it is now more accessible to non-English speakers. It is also saying that the website is a lot more user-friendly.
I think it is important to remember that no matter how much we try to make things easy, people will still find a way around our websites. In this case, the county health department is trying to make their website easier to use. However, I think making it bilingual is a little too much. You can tell that the site is designed for the English-speaking audience, but it is still very difficult for non-English speakers to navigate.
Of course, there is a big difference between creating an English version of our site and making it easier for non-English speakers to use. It is impossible to make the county health department website bilingual, and it is also impossible to make the site less difficult for non-English speakers to use.
Well, that said, the county health department is a bit too easy for non-English speakers to use. We have the ability to make the site bilingual, but there’s no way to make the site less hard for non-English speakers to use.
In my own experience though, I’ve yet to see an English version of the site that is easy for non-English speakers to use, and the county health department site is pretty easy for non-English speakers to use.
The first time I was on the site I asked a couple of questions and the answers were in English, then I asked another couple of questions and my answers were in English, then I asked yet another couple of questions and my answers were in English, then I went to the main page and looked for the answers, and the first answer was in English, and the second answer was in English, and so on and so forth.
It’s not that hard to find what answers are available in English, but it’s not as easy to find what’s available in the other languages. It’s like a giant spider web.
I think its more likely that the answers are in Google. That’s what I would imagine, and I could be wrong. The problem is that Google has gotten so large that they’d be a pain to navigate through.
Google is not an easy resource to navigate, and as you can imagine, the search results are not always easy to decipher. That means that if the only thing you know about a search result is that it is in English, then you can’t possibly know what other languages it could be in. You can use language tags on a page to get around this problem, but you might not be able to know what language it is, or how a particular language is represented in the results page.
Tippecanoe county health department is a unique case. They really are a health department. They serve the residents of tippecanoe county. They are not a government agency. They are not part of a large organization, and their website is not at all like the other health departments we see on the internet. It is all very basic. The best part is that they use a very simple navigation system to make the search results easy to find.
