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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HISOFTWARE
COMPANY IS CHOSEN BY THE NATIONAL
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY & THE
ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT AS THE
RECIPIENT OF THE 2002 da VINCI AWARD FOR
ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Concord, NH
September 6, 2002 — The NATIONAL
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY-MICHIGAN
CHAPTER (NMSS) and THE ENGINEERING
SOCIETY OF DETROIT announced today that
HiSoftware has won the 2002 da Vinci
Award in the Electronics and Information
Technology Category. The winning entries
were revealed at the second annual
Dinner with da Vinci Leadership Luncheon
at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn,
hosted by leadership chair Nick Scheele,
President and COO of Ford Motor Company.
HiSoftware Company of Concord, NH has
won the da Vinci award for their efforts
in developing software solutions for
people with disabilities that enhance
the accessibility of websites.
HiSoftware’s Web site accessibility
verification, repair and monitoring
software solutions assist organizations
in achieving and maintaining accessible
Web sites in compliance with Section 508
standards and W3C WCAG 1.0 Priority 1-3
accessibility guidelines. These
solutions, available as desktop and
automated server-based applications,
help organizations develop long-term
strategies to achieve Web content
accessibility. They allow multiple users
to work collaboratively on Web site
accessibility-resulting in reductions in
time and resources allocated to
accessibility.
HiSoftware’s product line includes a
combination of user-driven interactive
desktop solutions that allow developers
to test their Web sites and Web based
applications for conformance with
accessibility standards, and to caption
their multimedia presentations for
accessible presentation on the Web, and
server side remote applications that
allow for automated and remote
accessibility testing. The desktop
solutions, AccVerify/AccRepair include
both Web editor independent
applications, and add-ons for Microsoft
FrontPage, including a “no-cost”
solution for FrontPage users, developed
from a strategic relationship between
HiSoftware and Microsoft Corporation:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Sep01/09-24HiSoftwarePR.asp
“We congratulate
HiSoftware on receiving a 2002 da Vinci
Award for its accessibility products,”
said Giovanni Mezgec, FrontPage lead
product manager at Microsoft.
“HiSoftware’s products are best-in-class
solutions that enable Microsoft
FrontPage users to more thoroughly test
their FrontPage Web sites to ensure the
highest levels of accessibility. It’s
nice to see great products receive the
recognition they deserve.”
HiSoftware’s enterprise server solution,
AccMonitor Server, provides a remote
reporting system for managing Web
content accessibility. Running as a
Windows® service, AccMonitor is an
automated accessibility testing solution
for Web sites or for use in conjunction
with Intranet servers or file servers.
Using a crawler, AccMonitor tests sites
for compliance with Section 508 and W3C
accessibility standards. AccMonitor
spiders, or crawls over, entire Web
sites and reports on their accessibility
status. AccMonitor particularly benefits
organizations that need to monitor
multiple servers that host information
via the World Wide Web. 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.
This solution also integrates “out of
the box” with Microsoft Corporation's
Content Management Server™ and Share
Point Portal Server™.
HiSoftware has also integrated its award
winning AccVerify solution with Mercury
Interactive’s enterprise testing
products. Mercury Interactive
Corporation, the leading provider of
software and services that optimize
business processes, has provided
Validated Integration Partner status to
HiSoftware for its integration of
AccVerify with Mercury Interactive’s
enterprise testing solutions including:
Mercury Interactive's global test
management software, TestDirector®, and
functional and regression testing
software packages, WinRunner® and
QuickTest™ Professional.
The da Vinci Awards honor individuals,
organizations and corporations in the
engineering, construction and technical
industries, whose design innovations
have exceeded any legally mandated
requirements, such as the Americans with
Disabilities Act, to further empower all
people regardless of physical ability.
“This year’s group of winners are very
impressive,” notes NMSS President,
Patricia A. McDonald. “The entries we
received were of such high caliber that
our judges had a real challenge to meet.
The ones they chose are leaders in their
fields. These designers have
demonstrated such commitment, vision and
enthusiasm and deserve public
recognition for what they have done.
They have shown the way for others to
follow.”
View the Awards Dinner Video
Introduction
“HiSoftware Company is pleased and
honored to be selected as a recipient
for this year’s da Vinci award,” said
Robert B.
Yonaitis, HiSoftware President and CEO.
“Our customers recognize the importance
of complying with accessibility
standards on their Web sites so that the
information they provide is available to
everyone regardless of physical ability.
HiSoftware solutions allow users to
develop, implement and maintain a
strategy for delivering pervasive
accessibility within their
organizations.”
What is Pervasive
Accessibility?
It is content creation that includes
accessibility as part of the overall
development, quality assurance, and the
deployment process. HiSoftware desktop
software enables you to manage
information and reduces the complexities
for creating and maintaining accessible
content. Our enterprise solutions enable
integration into every aspect of the
content delivery process making
accessibility part of every content
management & deployment system. Our
server based solutions provide complete
accessibility status of content,
templates, dynamic sites and any other
web bound content supported. It extends
the Quality Assurance process by
providing timely alerts to accessibility
workers when a page or site is not in
compliance and this drives down costs as
well as dramatically improves customer
experience.
Education and
Outreach Efforts
In addition to HiSoftware’s product
line, its educational efforts are
represented by its recently published
book, "Understanding Accessibility"
(ISBN - 1-930616-03-1), which is
included in eBook format, at no cost,
with each HiSoftware accessibility
software solution or available for
immediate download. This book is a guide
to creating and testing Web sites that
are developed to the U.S. federal
standards for accessible Web content,
and the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C®), accessibility guidelines and all
guidelines derived from the same.
HiSoftware also continues to conduct
educational outreach events for all web
site developers, managers, and quality
assurance engineers to educate them on
the creation of accessible and usable
content.
For more information
on HiSoftware Accessibility / Usability
Solutions:
Dinner with da Vinci
This year’s Dinner with da Vinci will be
held on Friday, September 20 at the Ritz
Carlton in Dearborn. Attendees will have
the opportunity to view the design
innovations. Proceeds from the awards
dinner, which is black-tie optional,
will benefit the efforts of THE
ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT and the
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
SOCIETY-MICHIGAN CHAPTER to ensure an
accessible environment for all
individuals with disabilities through
education, services, research and the
continued support of both organizations’
missions. Ford Motor Company is the
presenting sponsor of the event. Major
sponsors are DaimlerChrysler, General
Motors, Lear Corporation and Plastech
Engineered Products, Inc. Individual
ticket prices begin at $300. Table
prices begin at $3,000 and sponsorship
opportunities are available
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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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