Tag: language access
70% of U.S. Residents Support Language Access Measures
The majority of the United States’ residents believe that the nation should do more to accommodate speakers of other languages, according to results from...
Language Accessibility and Environmental Racism in Texas
After a nearly two-year-long legal battle, the state of Texas has acceded to complaints regarding language accessibility and environmental racism. Back in 2019, three...
AMN Languages Services Reports on LEP in Healthcare
AMN Languages Services, the division of AMN Healthcare that provides medical interpretation services, recently conducted a survey documenting the diversity of languages used in...
Restart Financial Inc. launches Multilingual Banking Service for Immigrants
As of 2019, approximately 63 million Americans were either unbanked or underbanked, putting these individuals at a financial disadvantage compared to their counterparts with...
Improving Language Access for Local Rent Relief Programs
The Council for Court Excellence (CCE), a Washington, D.C.-based legal advocacy group, has recently published a letter calling on D.C.’s government to make its...
New Mexico’s Language Access Services Best in U.S.
In its recently released Justice Index, the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) named the state of New Mexico as the number one...
Streaming on Twitch in a Minority Language
About 99% of the internet’s content is written in just 30 languages — and more than half of that content is written in English....
The Underrepresentation of African Languages in Tech
Like any other continent on Earth, Africa is home to hundreds — and potentially thousands, depending on who you ask—of indigenous languages. Some of...
Bill to Improve Language Access in Mortgage Servicing
Last week, the United States House Committee on Financial Services passed a bill that would improve language access services during the mortgage lending process....
New York Senate Passes Bill to Increase Language Access
A bill requiring New York state agency websites to be translated into the 12 most widely spoken languages in the state has recently been...
Weekly Shorts | April 30, 2021
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to Support U.S. Language Education
America’s Languages Working Group has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,...
Apple to provide interpreters in stores
International tech company Apple plans to up the availability of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in its stores, reports information site iLounge. In the...
