United States Air
Force-Headquarters Selects HiSoftware
Company's Content Quality and
Accessibility Solutions
Concord, NH July 28,
2004 – HiSoftware Company, the leader in
enterprise Web Accessibility and Content
Quality solutions, announced today that
the United States Air Force-Headquarters,
Section 508 resource team has selected
HiSoftware’s Web Quality and Accessibility
“Acc” product line to be utilized for
enterprise wide monitoring of Air Force
Web sites and Web based applications.
Through this agreement, HiSoftware
Company’s AccMonitor and AccVerify will be
used to evaluate and monitor Air Force
intranet and Internet web sites for
conformance with Section 508 and Web
content quality standards. In addition to
“out-of-the-box” testing and reporting for
Accessibility, Privacy, Metadata and
Usability standards, AccMonitor and
AccVerify will allow the Air Force’s
policy managers to define content policies
and to validate compliance with these
policies.
Under the terms of the
agreement, HiSoftware Company will provide
an enterprise license of its AccMonitor
Server software to US Air Force
Headquarters for use by its webmasters,
application developers, and Section 508
compliance experts. AccMonitor is an
automated content quality and
accessibility testing solution for Web
sites, or for use in conjunction with
intranet servers or file servers.
AccMonitor is a server solution that is
designed to run with no user interaction
once configured. AccMonitor can be
scheduled to crawl Web sites daily,
weekly, or monthly. It also allows users
to log-on for “on demand” reports on the
accessibility status of their Web pages.
HiSoftware’s user-driven interactive
desktop solution, AccVerify, will also be
used to test Air Force sites/applications
for compliance with Section 508 guidelines
and other content quality standards. For
example, AccVerify will be used to scan
and analyze web content for broken links,
and will produce detailed reports to help
developers and quality assurance
professionals’ pinpoint content,
interaction, and usability defects.
More information about this application is
available from the HiSoftware Web site:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/index.html
The United States Air
Force joins a growing list of Federal
Agencies turning to HiSoftware Company for
Enterprise wide Content Quality solutions,
including but not limited to US Department
of Transportation, US Geological Survey,
the Internal Revenue Service, Army
Material Command, and many others.
HiSoftware Company has enterprise software
license agreements with both Federal and
State Government agencies and works with
several Fortune 1000 corporations
including Microsoft Corporation, Mercury
Interactive, and Fidelity Investments:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/scustomers.html
Section 508, an
amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of
1973, requires electronic and information
technology that is used, developed, and
procured by the Federal government to be
accessible to people with disabilities.
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About HiSoftware
HiSoftware Company, the leader in
enterprise content quality management
solutions, provides innovative products
that empower quality assurance teams,
content developers, Web site architects,
and company executives to work
collaboratively on their efforts to create
and manage corporate Web standards for
Accessibility, Privacy, Searchability,
Usability and custom guidelines and
policies. HiSoftware’s integrated,
full-lifecycle solutions dramatically
reduce the time required to test, manage
and deploy e-business Web sites.
HiSoftware works closely with industry
leaders and visionaries to provide
solutions for today's information
accessibility, content quality, search and
retrieval needs. HiSoftware’s customers
represent Fortune 500 companies, and many
of the largest e-commerce, government, and
educational sites in North America and
around the world and include
ChevronTexaco, Commerce One, Mercury
Interactive, and Microsoft Government.
Founded in 1998, HiSoftware Company
maintains North American corporate
headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire.
Further information about HiSoftware can
be found online at
www.hisoftware.com
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All information in this release is as of
July 28, 2004. The company undertakes no
duty to update any forward-looking
statement to conform the statement to
actual results or changes in the company's
expectations.
