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Immediate Release
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Irena Mroz
HiSoftware
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The Carroll
Center for the Blind Implements
HiSoftware’s Hi-Caption Studio for
Distance Learning Program
Solution
enables center to caption hundreds
of multimedia files for
accessibility compliance
Nashua, N.H. – November 14, 2006
– HiSoftware (www.hisoftware.com), a
leading provider of software,
services and managed operation
solutions that monitor and optimize
Web content, quality and regulatory
compliance, announced today that The
Carroll Center for the Blind located
in Newton, Mass., has implemented
HiSoftware’s Hi-Caption Studio to
create and test captioning of
multimedia files for the Center’s
Carroll Tech Web-based distance
learning program. Hi-Caption allows
the Center to quickly and easily
caption hundreds of audio and video
training files for Section 508
compliance.
Brian Charlson, vice president of
computer training services at The
Carroll Center for the Blind, said,
“As an organization that serves the
needs of the blind and the visually
impaired, it is extremely important
that we provide complete access to
our services and materials for all
users and instructors. Hi-Caption
not only provides us with the
technology necessary to ensure that
our multimedia courses meet the
highest standards in accessibility
compliance, but is also easy to
understand and does not require
programming skills. Without
Hi-Caption we would have to manually
caption hundreds of files.”
Carroll Tech is the effort of a
dedicated group of individuals who
work at The Carroll Center for the
Blind. While the Center offers
onsite technology courses, Carroll
Tech was formed to assist blind and
visually impaired individuals around
the world through the use of
training classes on the Web.
Instruction is offered in access
technologies such as screen readers,
screen magnifiers, Braille
embossers, note-takers and scanners.
Each course is comprised of text,
videos, exercises, quizzes and chat
sessions.
Carroll Tech offers Web-based
courses in Microsoft Excel, Outlook
and PowerPoint, as well as training
on using any of a number of Braille,
speech or large print devices. An
average Carroll Tech course is
comprised of 12 lessons, with each
lesson consisting of three to five
videos, and also includes audio.
Developers at Carroll Tech initially
used Hi-Caption Studio to caption
multimedia for its beginner series
of courses, which consisted of much
longer videos than would be used for
a typical course. Hi-Caption allowed
the developers to interactively and
easily create formatted captioning
files, without having to learn the
code behind it, but with the power
of making the code accessible.
Hi-Caption also allows developers at
Carroll Tech to immediately test the
files as they are developed. As new
content is developed for updated
courses, Carroll Tech is also using
Hi-Caption to caption videos for
those new courses.
“The Carroll Center for the Blind
is a well-respected organization
whose goal is to provide services
and technology for assisting those
individuals who are blind or
visually impaired,” said HiSoftware
President and CEO, Kurt A.
Mueffelmann. “We are pleased to be
working with the Center to help
further its mission of being on the
forefront of technology to provide
universal accessibility.”
About Carroll Center for the
Blind The Carroll Center for the
Blind, located in Newton, Mass. is a
private, non-profit agency that
serves persons of all ages who are
blind or visually impaired.
Throughout its 68-year history, the
Center has pioneered innovative
methods for blind persons to gain
independence in their homes, in
class settings and in their work
places. New and evolving
technologies, combined with
time-tested adaptive methods,
individual attention and
personalized care and therapies
developed by the Carroll Center’s
professional staff have provided the
blind community with many
opportunities for success and
independent living.
About
HiSoftware
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
optimization (SEO), site quality and
performance, branding, competitive
intelligence, and application
transaction testing (AppTest).
HiSoftware’s customers boast many of
the world’s largest public and
private sites including US and
international government agencies
and Global 2000 companies such as
Gateway, HP, California State
University, US Department of
Transportation and Microsoft
Government. For more information
about HiSoftware visit
www.hisoftware.com.
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