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For
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Spanish Language Release...
HiSoftware
Announces Spanish Language Edition of
“Understanding Accessibility” Book
CONCORD, NH. –
February 18, 2003- HiSoftware, Inc., the
leader in enterprise content quality
management solutions, announced today
that it will be publishing the Spanish
Language edition of “Understanding
Accessibility,” a complete guide to
creating and testing Web sites that are
developed to the U.S. federal standards
for accessible Web content, and the
World Wide Web, or W3C®, accessibility
guidelines. This book introduces the
accessibility initiative and its
challenges and provides a complete
reference on accessibility remediation.
It also provides guidelines for
accessible Web design, and information
that will assist organizations in
integrating accessibility into their
existing quality assurance and content
management practices. The Spanish
Language edition of “Understanding
Accessibility” will be available March
11, 2003.
"'Understanding the
Accessibility' is a practical, clear and
simple guide that facilitates the
understanding of access problems for
people with disabilities, how a Web Site
should be developed to be accessible for
all, how to fulfill the guidelines and
norms of accessibility of the W3C and
the federal legislation of United States
(the famous Section 508), how to
negotiate and audit for accessibility
and, also, it provides example files in
HTML. In definitive, it is a reference
unavoidable for all those that want to
know and to understand the latest
standards of the Information and
Knowledge Society, ” said Emmanuelle
Gutiérrez y Restrepo, SIDAR Coordinator.
“The release of the edition in Spanish
of this book, comes to fill the existent
hole of consultation books on the matter
that respond to the necessities of
company directive, positions of the
public administration, Web developers
and designers, and in general of those
who face the necessity of creating a Web
site accessible or of modifying it so
that it is it. This is a book written
with rigor and with a deep knowledge of
the topic. Its author is an authority in
accessibility, with more than 14 years
of experience in software engineering
and in knowledge management.”
This book provides practical, ‘how to’
advice to help any size organization
understand the accessibility issue. It
introduces accessibility testing and
accessible Web development, with a
complete tutorial and workshop included.
The book also discusses accessibility
from a Project Management perspective,
so that organizations can develop their
own “best practices” for accessible Web
design. United States Federal Agencies,
including the Social Security
Administration and the National Council
on Disability, as well as schools and
Universities, have requested and
received permission from HiSoftware
Company to include this book as part of
their accessibility training courses,
seminars and programs.
“Since the Internet was founded, it has
become an easy way to publish and locate
information, however, people using
assistive technologies to access this
information have been historically
provided with limited access to that
information,” said
Robert B.
Yonaitis, President and CEO of
HiSoftware, Inc. “HiSoftware is
committed both to providing software
solutions and educational resources,
with world-wide relevancy. The Spanish
Language Edition of “Understanding
Accessibility” can assist organizations
in developing strategies for meeting the
accessibility standards and guidelines
for Web sites, Web applications and
software applications.”
Obtaining the book
Understanding Accessibility: A Guide to
Achieving Compliance on Web Sites and
Intranets (ISBN - 1-930616-03-1) is
available at no-cost and can be
downloaded from the HiSoftware Web site
at:
http://www.hisoftware.com/msacc/regbook.htm
. The Spanish Language Version will be
available on March 11, 2003.
Read more about the
book -
http://www.hisoftware.com/uaccess/Index.html
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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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