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Language Access Compliance: Regulatory Updates | Q2 2026

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Issue #2 | Q2 2026

Welcome to our second issue. At the request of our Client Advisory Board, BURG Translations developed this briefing to keep our clients informed about language access requirements that may affect your industries.

Compliance officers in healthcare and regulated industries spent much of this quarter waiting for guidance that didn’t come. The federal guidance that organizations used to structure their language access programs was formally withdrawn more than a year ago. The replacement information that the DOJ promised still hasn’t appeared. This quarter, two major accessibility deadlines were extended within days of implementation, while OCR resolved three enforcement actions in three months, all under the same statutes and with the same corrective actions. Organizations are still being asked to interpret their own obligations without the federal frameworks that once defined what meeting them looked like.

This issue covers regulatory changes, new legislation, enforcement actions, and legal developments across healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, and legal services from 2025 through Q2 2026.

Catch up on last quarter’s updates in the Q1 2026 issue.

 

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Language Access Compliance: Regulatory Updates | Q1 2026

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Issue #1 | Q1 2026

At the request of our Client Advisory Board, BURG Translations developed this briefing to keep our clients informed about language access requirements that may affect your industries.

If 2025 felt like a difficult year to keep up with…well, it was. New federal legislation and active court settlements all took place in the same 18 months, just as much of the federal guidance (guidance documents, not the underlying statutes) that helps organizations navigate language compliance was formally withdrawn.

This issue covers regulatory changes, new legislation, enforcement actions, and legal developments across healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, and legal services from 2025 through Q1 2026. A small number of items are from late 2024 and are included because they remain active or established enforcement patterns that continue to apply.

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CEO of chicago-based translation services company to present at international program in Miami

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Chicago, IL, July 24, 2016: Chicago-based BURG Translations, an international company specializing in technical translation services, recently announced that Angelo Passalacqua, CEO, will be a featured speaker at the 6th Annual Clinical Trials Innovation Programme in Miami at the Sheraton Miami Hotel & Executive Meeting Center on July 28 and 29. The event will feature 25 innovative thought leaders from around the world as key note speakers. Through strategic keynote addresses, themed tracks and dedicated networking sessions, attendees will have the chance to be educated about the latest industry trends, improve their company’s brand awareness, debut new products and solutions, and meet with new and existing clients.

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What facebook teaches us about globalization and translation

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Love it or hate it, Facebook continues to keep the world wrapped around its finger. If you need proof of its world dominance, take a look Facebook’s most recent annual report.

Here are just a few of the surprising statistics and claims made in the report:

  • Generated $13 billion in the EMEA region;
  • Had a $21 billion economic impact on Central and South America;
  • Had a $100 billion economic impact on the United States

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Spain and Italy continue to lose in patent translation service fight

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As a business, you know how expensive it is to file a patent. From the cost of filing to the expense of having the necessary patent translation service, patent filings are costly to companies.

With that in mind, it’s easy to understand why businesses continue their frustration over Spain and Italy’s non-stop battle against the European Patent Office (EPO).

For almost a half-century, Spain and Italy have fought the EPO to require that patents be filed in Spanish or Italian. Right now, the claims for a patent section must be filed in the EU in the top three dominant languages: English, German, and French. Spain and Italy want to add Spanish and Italian to that list of languages. Read more