Sandy,
If you're translating small chunks of text, you can try Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com
It works better with Firefox than with internet explorer. If your
languages are common (like English and Spanish), you can just press
enter on the English and Spanish buttons, making sure one is above the
Swap Language button and the other is below it. Then type your text in
the edit field, and finally, press enter on the Translate button. To
find your result, jump to the bottom of the page with ctrl+end, and move
up to the first button from the bottom. Arrow up a few times from there.
If you use NVDA, you can try an instant translate plugin:
http://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/instantTranslate.en.html
To install it, download the package, and while NVDA is running, press
enter on it. To set it up, go into the NVDA menu>Preferences>Addons,
up/down-arrow to Instant translate, and tab to select your source and
target languages. to use it, select text, copy it to the clipboard,
press NVDA+shift+y, then paste the contents of the clipboard to a blank
document.
Reading Made Ez also sells or sold an accessible translator. I remember
needing sighted help to install it. It's been so long since I've used it
I don't remember how I liked it or how practical it was. I think it cost
about $150.
All of these options, of course, produce machine translations, which
give you the gist of what's happening, but aren't especially good.
ciao
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