HiSoftware
Launches Broadened Accessibility
Consulting Practices
Noted accessibility
attorney Ken Nakata to lead expanded
solutions offering from new Redmond,
Washington offices
Nashua, NH and Redmond, WA –
November 12, 2008 – HiSoftware Inc. (www.hisoftware.com),
a leading provider of software,
services and managed operation
solutions that monitor and optimize
Web content, quality and regulatory
compliance for accessibility and
privacy content, today announced the
launch of the company’s
Accessibility Consulting Practices (ACP).
Based in Redmond, Washington, USA
the ACP team will broaden
HiSoftware’s consulting offerings in
the area of IT accessibility.
Working with HiSoftware’s new and
existing customers across the globe,
the ACP team’s mission is to provide
better, faster and more cost
effective ways to manage the growing
concerns and opportunities
surrounding clients’ IT
accessibility.
HiSoftware President and CEO, Kurt
A. Mueffelmann, stated, “The
HiSoftware ACP team includes the
best legal, policy, development and
testing experts in the industry.
Building on HiSoftware’s world-wide
reputation as the accessibility
technology leader, we can now offer
our customers a more comprehensive
offering that encompasses true
end-to-end accessibility; from
policy and technology alignment,
through testing and manual
remediation. All delivered by a team
of expert manual and disabled
users.”
HiSoftware ACP offers customer
support in the following areas:
- Accessibility Policy
Consulting
- WCAG 1.0 / 2.0, Section 508, Section 504, Section 255
- Accessibility Audits
- Web Content Assessment and Remediation
- Accessible Content Management Systems
- VPAT Processes
- Software Accessibility
- PDF Remediation and Document Workflow
- Closed Captioning Services
- Disabled User Testing on Latest Technologies and Tools
- JAWS, Window Eyes, ZoomText, EZKeys, Magic Cursor, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Soft Type, LunarPlus
The ACP team will be overseen by
Ken Nakata, Esq., HiSoftware’s new
Director of Accessibility Consulting
Practices. Nakata is one of the most
well-known and respected attorneys
in the area of IT accessibility. His
work focuses on Web and software
accessibility from both a legal and
technical perspective. Nakata also
helps organizations manage the
change towards accessibility in all
aspects—including crafting policies,
developing stakeholder ownership,
and forging awareness and commitment
to the legal and business case
supporting accessibility.
Nakata worked for twelve years as a
Senior Trial Attorney with the U.S.
Department of Justice. He has argued
on behalf of the United States
government many times before the
federal courts and has helped shape
the government's policies for the
Americans with Disabilities Act and
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act. Nakata is a frequent speaker on
both law and technology and is
equally adept at conducting
one-on-one workshops with
programmers and developers as well
as explaining law and policy to
large audiences. Nakata holds a
Bachelors of Art degree in
mathematics from John Hopkins
University and a Juris Doctor degree
from the University of Pennsylvania
Law School. He is admitted to the
bars of New York, the District of
Columbia, Pennsylvania, and
Washington (pending).
About HiSoftware
Inc.
Founded in 1998, HiSoftware is a
leading provider of software,
services and On-Demand solutions
that test, repair, monitor and
enforce Web content, quality and
regulatory compliance. The company’s
solutions empower content
developers, Web site architects and
executives to work collaboratively
to create and manage corporate Web
standards for accessibility,
privacy, security, search engine
optimisation (SEO), site quality and
performance, branding, competitive
intelligence and application
transaction testing. HiSoftware’s
customers boast many of the world’s
largest public and private sites
including U.S. and international
government agencies and Global 2000
companies such as HP, California
State University, BBC-Worldwide,
Tata Consulting, U.S. Department of
Transportation and Microsoft. For
more information about HiSoftware
visit
www.hisoftware.com.
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Company Contact
John Rogers, CFO
HiSoftware Inc.
+1.603.578.1870
jr@hisoftware.com
Media Contact
Irena Mroz, Marketing
HiSoftware Inc.
+1.603.578.1870
irena@hisoftware.com
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