Comment by marten-de-vries
6 years ago
That's the case because you speak English. Think about the last time you had to navigate a website in a language you didn't speak (in my case e.g. Chinese or Russian). I remember being very happy with a few (incomplete) clues in English about were to look and what to expect.
By all means, advocate for making it easy to change the language back to the original. But this stance will decrease accessibility.
In case of technical websites, you have to know English anyway, because even if there is a broken translation of the documentation, function names, enums and all the cool stuff remains in the original language anyway.
> you have to know English anyway
You don't, plenty of developers are getting around having to know English as there are other resources for learning.
I think it's a dangerous assumption that everyone knows English. It's especially true in the Spanish-speaking world, where I know developers who can't have a conversation in English but are good enough to be employable.
I would rather just use google translate to do it automatically on the entire page, and yes I do that quite regularly from German.