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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