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HiSoftware and
Microsoft: Partnering
for Trustworthy
Computing Solutions
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Computing
Solutions
As
the amount of electronic
information continues to
multiply in
organizations, the need
for a comprehensive,
cost-effective
accessibility solution
is becoming a
sought-after priority.
HiSoftware and Microsoft
have partnered to
provide integrated,
world-class software
solutions that enable
customers to plan,
develop, build and
maintain portals, Web
sites and online
applications that comply
with industry and
regulatory standards and
promote Trustworthy
Computing.
Used together,
HiSoftware’s and
Microsoft’s solutions
address today’s new
challenges in content
policy management. They
provide a complete,
scalable enterprise test
management system that
enables validation of
content for compliance
with standards-based and
organizational policies
for content defects,
privacy, site inventory,
Web accessibility, site
maintenance and
management of corporate
standards.
This is achieved with a
combination of
HiSoftware’s back-end,
automated solutions that
provide monitoring for
applications managed by
Microsoft Office
SharePoint Portal Server
and Content Management
Solutions and
HiSoftware’s user-driven
interactive desktop
solutions that allow
developers and designers
to test and remediate
content as they build it
with Microsoft
development tools.
Product
Integrations
HiSoftware’s solutions
can be easily added to
an existing
implementation of
Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server
(MOSS), an online
application or Web site.
HiSoftware provides
enterprise-wide
automated content
compliance solutions to
monitor, audit, enforce
and test Web content and
applications for
regulatory compliance,
in addition to on-demand
developer solutions for
testing content within
the development
environment (see chart
below). All HiSoftware
solutions seamlessly
integrate with
Microsoft’s Visual
Studio®, SharePoint®
Designer, Expression®,
Office®, SharePoint®
Portal Server, and
InfoPath® E-forms
Server.
Accessibility
Kit for SharePoint® (AKS)
HiSoftware has joined
efforts with Microsoft
to create the
Accessibility Kit for
SharePoint or AKS that
provides reusable tools
and components as well
as documentation and
tutorials to ensure that
MOSS provides a basic
solution for
accessibility. The
intellectual property,
is available under the
Microsoft Public Licence
as Open Source code to
the community through
Codeplex. AKS
significantly reduces
the time, knowledge, and
effort required to
implement a
SharePoint-based Web
site that conforms to
the World Wide Web
Consortium’s (W3C) Web
Content Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0 Priority
1 and 2 checkpoints,
which are collectively
known as WCAG 1.0 AA.
The kit also assists
with compliance for the
newest WCAG 2.0 AA
Candidate
Recommendation.
Furthermore, AKS can be
used to address the
exceptions that have
been identified in the
U.S. government’s
Section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act’s
Voluntary Product
Accessibility Template
or VPAT documents for
MOSS 2007. Additional
adapters and remediation
provided through the kit
include: Canadian Common
Look and Feel guidelines
(CLF 2.0), Translated
French language version
of AKS scenarios for Web
Content Management, and
automation of control
adapters through install
settings via
Smart Adapters.
HiSoftware's Accessible
Rich Text Editor (aRTE)
Additionally, to assist
with the accessibility
of SharePoint,
HiSoftware has created
an accessible Rich Text
Editor, HiSoftware aRTE.
Through a separate
licensing and support
agreement with
Microsoft, HiSoftware
aRTE will be available
for download at no
charge for use in a
SharePoint environment
of MOSS and WSS.
HiSoftware aRTE is a
lightweight text editor
for SharePoint designed
to help the user make
more accessible Web
Parts for both the
content author as well
as the content viewer.
It provides many of the
common features
available in desktop
editors like Microsoft
Word®. With HiSoftware
aRTE you can write text,
format text, create
tables and much more.
The
AKS solution along with
HiSoftware’s aRTE will
help get you started on
the road to Web
accessibility with an
accessible
platform/framework from
which to launch your
portal or intranet site.
By adding HiSoftware’s
end-to-end compliance
solutions to address Web
Accessibility and other
Web governance issues
(i.e. privacy, PII,
profanity, search engine
optimization) through
the development process
and to provide ongoing
compliance testing
through an integrated
SharePoint work flow
process. HiSoftware’s
end-to-end solutions
provide a fully
integrated Web project
life cycle approach that
allows customers to
start accessible and
stay accessible.
This methodology
provides the highest
level of consistency,
quality and stability in
a site. Each
organization is
different and has
individual needs, so we
offer a variety of
solutions to fit your
requirements from
developer’s desktop
products to enterprise
governance solutions.
HiSoftware’s extended
solutions provide an
approach and methodology
that empowers content
authors to learn for
themselves, along with
the “fail safe”
automation, back-end
trapping and auditing
that allow the
SharePoint system, along
with subject matter
experts, to keep
non-compliant content
from entering the
live/production
environment. This
dramatically reduces
time, cost, and
complexity associated
with building,
deploying, and
maintaining a properly
functioning Web site
that maintains the
highest level of
corporate compliance.
AccRepair® for
SharePoint Designer
This
developer’s desktop
solution assists
SharePoint Designer
users in testing and
remediating content and
the “architecture” that
is built for MOSS sites.
AccRepair works in the
development environment
and provides
comprehensive content
verification and error
identification for
standards-based
compliance issues. It
also produces a
checklist of criteria
for subsequent manual
verification. AccRepair
provides Web site
checking and automated
correction facilities
for standards-based
accessibility compliance
including: W3C WCAG 1.0
Priority 1, 2 and 3,
Section 508, and
supports the creation of
custom accessibility
checks. Additionally, it
supports usability
testing with the
Usability Test Manager.
HiSoftware Compliance
Sheriff™ for MOSS
HiSoftware Compliance
Sheriff for MOSS gives
organizations an easy,
cost-effective way to
successfully develop and
maintain best-of-breed
Web sites that promote
the highest standards in
Web governance,
promoting a high quality
user experience.
HiSoftware Compliance
Sheriff provides testing
and reporting options
for standards-based
Accessibility and
Privacy policies based
on the current standards
outlined by Section 508,
Section 208 and WCAG
1.0. Unlike other
solutions, it also
allows users to easily
define and conduct
custom tests for an
organization own unique
policies without any
costly consulting and or
programming.
Comprehensive Dashboard
Reporting features allow
content managers and
executives to review
site status with
multiple reporting
levels that allow
developers to drill down
into pass/fail details
for remediation. The
result is a complete and
concise report on the
total accessibility,
quality and policy
compliance of a site or
pages of a site tested,
that can be shared with
the various groups
responsible for Web
Governance.
Additional features for
HiSoftware Compliance
Sheriff include:
Compliance Workflow for
MOSS by HiSoftware
Compliance Workflow for
MOSS by HiSoftware
provides Web governance
to every corner of your
SharePoint
implementation.
HiSoftware’s Compliance
Sheriff is used as the
engine for HiSoftware’s
Compliance Workflow when
approving or rejecting
content upon submission.
If the file passes, it
is approved and
published. Otherwise,
non-compliant content is
rejected and the
workflow can be
customized to provide a
warning message, block
content from being
published, or notify the
appropriate Policy
supervisor or
HR department, depending
on the severity of the
issue.
HiSoftware Page Tester™
for MOSS
HiSoftware PageTester
for MOSS provides
accessibility compliance
and content validation
through a browser-based
accessibility testing
architecture.
Administrators can
enable MOSS to allow for
client or plug-in
independent
accessibility testing
and validation for
individual MOSS pages
with PageTester. It
provides users with the
ability to integrate Web
content quality and
accessibility testing
into daily workflow,
without the requirement
of deploying executable
desktop solutions.
Joint Initiatives
Microsoft and HiSoftware
have partnered together
on a variety of
educational sessions
focused on accessibility
and content quality for
internal Microsoft Sales
Representatives and
technical specialists,
and our mutual
Government customers.
Most recently Microsoft
selected HiSoftware as a
vendor to develop the
Accessibility Kit for
MOSS 2007, also known as
Accessibility Kit for
SharePoint or AKS. The
decision was made
primarily based on
HiSoftware’s in-depth
expertise and broad
industry experience in
providing tools and
services for improving
software accessibility
to the point of
compliance with key
industry and government
standards and beyond.
Additionally, HiSoftware
and Microsoft have
teamed-up together on
several other product
initiatives including:
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In
2004 Microsoft and HiSoftware jointly
created the “Solution
for Online
Accessibility” to reduce
the time required to
build and deploy
accessible portals and
Web sites, and provide
extremely high
scalability,
reliability, and
performance for those
sites.
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HiSoftware has
also created solutions
for SPPS, which are
promoted by the MSFT
Product teams and sales
organization.
Microsoft as a
HiSoftware Customer
Microsoft is not just a
HiSoftware partner, they
are also a HiSoftware
customer. Microsoft has
implemented HiSoftware
solutions for a variety
of MS/MSN EMEA
initiatives, including
the use of AccMonitor®
for reporting on
accessibility status of
their Web sites.
Start Your
Accessibility Initiative
Today
Call HiSoftware
Microsoft Compliance
Solutions expert today
to discuss your
organization’s
accessibility
requirements today.
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