Department of
Treasury-Office of Comptroller of the
Currency Selects HiSoftware Company's
Content Quality and Accessibility
Solutions
Concord, NH
September 28, 2004 – HiSoftware
Company, the leader in enterprise Web
Accessibility and Content Quality
solutions, announced today that the
Department of Treasury-Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”),
has selected HiSoftware’s Web Quality
and Accessibility product line to be
utilized for accessibility testing and
remediation of OCC Web sites and Web
based applications. Through this
agreement, HiSoftware Company’s
desktop solutions AccVerify and
AccRepair will be used to evaluate and
remediate 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, these solutions allow an
organization’s experts and/or policy
managers to define content policies
and to validate compliance with these
policies. AccVerify and AccRepair also
provide Webmasters and Content
Managers with the necessary tools to
test and remediate existing content
and content in development for
conformance. OCC Webmasters will be
using HiSoftware solutions to create
and manage sites that are accessible
and Section 508 compliant to define
content policies and to validate
compliance with these policies.
The Department of
Treasury-Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency, charters, regulates, and
supervises national banks to ensure a
safe, sound, and competitive banking
system that supports the citizens,
communities, and economy of the United
States.
HiSoftware’s
solutions include a combination of
user-driven interactive desktop
solutions that allow developers to
test their content for conformance
with standards, and server-side
applications that provide managers
with automated and remote testing. A
scalable architecture provides a
faster deployment time and lower cost
of ownership for the solution set.
Used together these solutions enable
developers, testers and project teams
to verify Web site accessibility in
compliance with Section 508, as well
as custom corporate-content quality
standards. The solutions provide
Webmasters with a simple,
cost-effective way to manage
accessibility and content quality
testing within their development
environments, at the same time
providing a centralized reporting
system and audit trail for Web content
compliance status.
More information about this
application is available from the
HiSoftware Web site:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/index.html
The Department of Treasury-Office of
the Comptroller of the Currency 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, and Mercury Interactive:
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.
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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HiSoftware is a
trademark of Hiawatha Island Software
Company, Inc. Any and all other
product and company names mentioned
herein are the trademarks or service
marks of their respective owners.
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All information in this release is as
of September 27, 2004. The company
undertakes no duty to update any
forward-looking statement to conform
the statement to actual results or
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