Useful links

The following sites, which deal mostly with localization and information technology, provide useful and interesting information.

These links are provided solely for the convenience of Technolinguistic Services (TLS) Web site users. TLS is not responsible for the information found on them. Some of these links are to organizations or other entities that are not subject to the Official Languages Act. Users should be aware that some information from other sources may be available in only one official language.

Common Look and Feel

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/clf-nsi/index_e.asp

This site describes the rules that all federal government Web sites must follow.

Localisation Industry Standards Association (LISA)

http://www.lisa.org (English only)

LISA promotes the localization (L10N) and internationalization (I18N) industry and recommends a method and services designed to facilitate information sharing in the development of processes, tools, technologies and business models in localization, internationalization and related fields.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

http://www.w3.org (English only)

An international consortium that sets standard protocols for the Web: HTML, fonts, new attributes, HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), URLs (uniform resource locators) and other identifiers such as non-ASCII characters.

Directory of suppliers of information-technology based solutions and services

http://www.globalization.com (English only)

Portal to organizations working in information technology, localization and internationalization.

ALL HTML

http://www.allhtml.com (French only)

An excellent reference site for beginner and intermediate users of Web technologies.

Multilingual Computing & Technology

http://www.multilingual.com (English only)

The site of Multilingual Computing & Technology, an international magazine on information technologies.