Website and app localization
An Arabic website localization checklist for your next launch
A useful localization brief connects the words your customers read with the screens and journeys they use. Work through this checklist before requesting an Arabic website or app quote, whether you are launching a few pages or a complete product.
Discuss your project1. Define the audience and the first release
Name the countries, customer groups and channels you want to serve. Discuss Modern Standard Arabic or a regional style in relation to your brand and content. A support article and a consumer campaign may need different tones.
Choose the pages or journeys included in the first release. A focused scope could cover your product page, inquiry form and confirmation message. It should also account for what users encounter immediately before and after those screens.
2. Gather content and context together
Provide your website link and an editable content export or representative resource file. Add screenshots, page references, approved terminology and any character limits. Separate text for translation from material supplied only as reference.
- Include navigation, buttons, validation errors and confirmation messages.
- Identify text inside images, emails and downloadable files.
- Flag names, content keys, variables and other elements that must remain unchanged.
3. Make ambiguous strings explicit
Original illustrative example: the English label ‘Save’ could mean storing account changes or reducing a purchase price. A screenshot and a short context note let the Arabic wording reflect the intended action. A list of isolated words cannot reliably provide that context.
Agree how plural forms, placeholders and repeated terms will be checked in your file format. Send a sample early so supported formats and the return workflow can be confirmed.
4. Review the Arabic experience on screen
Arabic text needs appropriate reading direction. Latin brand names, email addresses and numbers can run in a different direction within it; W3C guidance explains why these combinations need deliberate handling. Check punctuation and field content in the actual interface.
Review agreed screens for text clipping, alignment and understandable actions. Discuss dates, numbers and currencies for the intended market. Evaluate navigation and icons in context rather than reversing every visual automatically. Keep linguistic review, functional testing and development fixes clearly assigned.
5. Agree the handover and update process
Confirm who returns localized content, who enters or integrates it, and who approves release. Agree review coverage, final formats, terminology references and how later content changes will be identified. Send this brief through our localization service page so the scope, price and timing can be reviewed before work begins.
Before you request a quote
Do we need to localize the entire website at once?
Selected pages or user journeys can form a first release. Include the surrounding navigation and messages needed for a coherent experience, then agree how later sections will follow.
Does localization include code changes?
Responsibilities are agreed with your product team. Content handover, linguistic review, technical implementation and functional testing need a defined scope; they are not automatically the same deliverable.
What should we send for a quote?
Share the product link, languages, target markets, pages or flows, deadline and a representative content export or screenshots. Arrange any review access separately and keep passwords out of the brief.
Ready to define the scope?
Share the materials and the decisions you have made. We confirm availability, deliverables, price and timing for your actual project.
Request a project quoteReferences
Platform and technical references checked 6 October 2026. Review current requirements before delivery.