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AccVerify® Publisher for Microsoft® Office System 2003 Provides Unparalleled Support for Creating Policy Complaint Content for Web distribution

AccVerify and Microsoft Office 2003 bring Web documents into compliance with your Policy Office addressing content quality, privacy, accessibility, usability and other custom quality factors

CONCORD, NH – October 2, 2003 – HiSoftware, Inc., announced today the upcoming release of its AccVerify Publisher for Microsoft Office 2003. The new Add-Ins will enable user of Microsoft Office 2003 to create, verify, and repair all Web documents created with Microsoft Office for conformance with Content Quality Standards and Accessibility standards outlined in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments, and under W3C WCAG Priority 1-3 accessibility guidelines.

Policy Officers will find that HiSoftware AccVerify and Microsoft Office are the perfect complements to each other for creating accessible content for Web distribution. Document authors can easily share policy compliant and accessible HTML documents with customers, colleagues, and partners around the world. Microsoft Office solutions allow document authors to create content that can be published as accessible HTML for use on the World Wide Web. The new integrated AccVerify Add-Ins will allow users of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to automatically publish, verify and repair their Microsoft Office documents HTML output, for conformance with organizations policy compliance, privacy policy and Accessibility guidelines and standards, before they publish these documents to the Web. AccVerify is already available as an integrated Add-In for Microsoft FrontPage®, Office 2000 and Office XP. These solutions allow you to automatically launch into the Verification and Repair upon completion of the conversion of a native Office document to HTML. They provide support for multiple Projects, allowing team members to collaborate on their reporting and repair efforts.

The AccVerify Publisher Source code is a Visual Basic .Net project that is provided with 100% source to our HiSoftware Developers Program. The full source code is available to customers in the developers program and example source code is available to developers. This open SDK allows you to incorporate custom usability guidelines into any content or test management system you may have.

This new component will be an integrated new feature in HiSoftware’s acclaimed AccVerify and AccRepair Solutions, which will dramatically decrease the cost of making Internet, Intranet, and Extranet content accessible and usable.

Integrate with Existing Systems
The new integration has been created through HiSoftware’s Open database architecture and Open API’s, which provide extensible systems that enable Systems Integrators and Users to integrate AccVerify and AccRepair into their Web site publishing or testing architectures thus providing the ability to run Accessibility verification and repair solutions as part of the process from within their content delivery system. Additionally, organizations that utilize proprietary content creation systems can incorporate HiSoftware solution functions into these systems without exposing their Intellectual Property outside of the organization.

HiSoftware’s Web site accessibility solutions, AccVerify, AccRepair, AccMonitor Server, Hi-Caption and AccessibilityWATCH, assist organizations in achieving and maintaining policy compliant Web sites. These solutions, available as desktop applications and as automated server solutions, help organizations develop long-term strategies to achieve organizational standards for Web content quality and accessibility. They allow multiple users to work collaboratively-resulting in reductions in time and resources allocated to accessibility.

Available as an integrated feature AccVerify and AccRepair. The Add-Ins will be available as of October 2, 2003 and can be downloaded from http://www.hisoftware.com/access/valueadd11.html. The Add-Ins will run with Office 2003 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

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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