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HiSoftware
Makes
Accessibility
and Content
Quality
Testing
Easier Than
Ever Before
New "Acc"
Family
Release 5
Empowers
Users to
Create and
Manage
Corporate
Standards
for
Accessibility,
Usability,
Searchability
and any
other Custom
Quality
Factors
Concord, NH
—November
13,
2002-HiSoftware,
Inc. today
announced
Release 5 of
its “Acc”
family of
products,
which will
provide new
options to
extend and
enhance the
ability for
platform
independent
and scalable
enterprise-wide
content
policy
management.
These new
enhancements
provide a
comprehensive
interface
for testing
content
against
standards
for
Accessibility,
searchability
and any
custom
content
quality
factor.
Release 5
provides a
unified
approach
that meets
the demands
of both
business and
technical
constituencies,
by allowing
an
organization’s
experts
and/or
policy
managers to
define
content
policies and
then provide
a solution
to validate
compliance
with these
policies.
These new
features
allow
organizations
to keep up
with
ever-changing
Web
technologies
and
standards.
Release 5.0
provides
“out-of-the-box”
testing and
reporting
for
Accessibility,
Privacy,
Metadata and
Usability
standards.
They will
also allow
users to
define and
conduct
custom
tests. The
final result
is a
complete and
concise
report on
the total
accessibility,
quality and
policy
compliance
status of
content that
has been
tested. The
software
provides
unsurpassed
team
services,
workflow
capabilities
and a
flexible,
scalable
enterprise
monitoring
system.
“The
Internet age
has
revolutionized
how
organizations
communicate,
publish and
find
information.
While this
technology
has created
new
opportunities
for global
communication
and
commerce, it
has also
created new
challenges,”
said
Robert B.
Yonaitis,
CEO of
HiSoftware
Company.
“Content
Policy
management
is a
critical
component of
any
successful
online
strategy.
The new
functionality
in the "Acc"
5.0 product
line will
assist our
customers to
build,
deploy, and
maintain
accessible,
usable and
searchable
content that
conforms to
their
corporate
quality
standards.”
The new
Custom
Checkpoint
Editor and
Custom
Report
Editor will
allow users
to define
specific
accessibility,
usability,
searchability,
privacy and
other custom
content
quality
factors
validation.
This is
designed to
provide
extensibility
of the
current
validation
system
provided
within the
products to
match any
specific
need not
covered by a
publicly
available
standard or
guideline.
Test
features,
formats and
customization
can be
pre-configured
by an
organization’s
experts
and/or
policy
managers so
that
developers,
quality
assurance
professionals
and other
content
creators
within the
organization,
using the
Acc
products,
can simply
run these
programmatic
tests and
receive a
result,
without any
requirement
for software
configuration.
Users of the
applications
will be able
to:
-
Test for
Accessibility
&
Usability:
Section
508, WCAG
1.0, WCAG
2.0, CLF,
XAG & any
standard
derived
from WCAG
or Section
508
-
Test for
compliance
with
custom
guidelines
and
policies
for all
content
including
but not
limited
to: HTML,
XHTML,
SVG, XML
and any
other text
or element
based
content
-
Custom
validation
is also
supported
for: CSS,
XSL, SVG,
JavaScript,
VBScript,
and other
text or
element
based
content
-
Ships with
Comprehensive
Reports
for:
Accessibility,
Searchability,
Privacy
Policy,
Metadata
Policy and
Usability.
Additional
support is
available
for testing
for privacy
policies,
HIPAA
related
compliance
or other
custom
organizational
standards.
More
information
about this
new utility
is available
at:
http://www.hisoftware.com/customchks/index.html
HiSoftware’s
Product line
includes a
combination
of
user-driven
interactive
desktop
solutions
that allow
developers
to test
their
content for
conformance
with
standards,
and server
side remote
applications
that allow
for
automated
and remote
testing. A
scalable
architecture
provides a
faster
deployment
time and
lower cost
of ownership
for the
solution
set. In
addition to
providing
complete
enterprise
architecture
for content
policy
management,
the
solutions
can be
extended
through
their full
application
programming
Interface
(API) so
that Systems
Integrators
and Users
can
integrate
AccVerify
and
AccMonitor
into their
content
management
or testing
architectures.
This
provides the
ability to
run policy
verification
and repair
solutions as
part of the
process from
within their
content
delivery
systems. The
solutions
also
integrate
“out of the
box” with
Microsoft
Corp.’s Web
content
management
solutions,
FrontPage,
Content
Management
Server and
Share Point
Portal
Server and
Mercury
Interactive's
global test
management
software,
TestDirectorŽ,
functional
and
regression
testing
software
packages,
WinRunnerŽ
and
QuickTest™
Professional,
and
Real-time
Monitoring
solutions,
Topaz and
SiteScopeŽ.
"FrontPage
government
and
corporate
customers
will find
this new
technology
useful,
because it
allows them
to more
easily keep
up with
ever-changing
Web
technologies
and
standards,”
said Raj
Kapoor,
product
manager for
FrontPage at
Microsoft.
The new
versions of
these
applications
will be
available
through
HiSoftware
Company on
November 18,
2002.
Find out why
organizations
that must be
Accessible
continue to
select
HiSoftware
Organizations
select
HiSoftware’s
verification,
repair and
monitoring
solutions
because they
are
“best-in-class”
applications,
which
provide a
scalable
enterprise
architecture
to assure
compliance
with content
policies.
These
award-wining
solutions,
available as
desktop and
automated
server-based
applications,
provide
review and
analysis,
and serve as
a quality
assurance
mechanism
for policy
management.
They allow
multiple
users to
work
collaboratively
resulting in
reductions
in time and
resources,
assisting in
the
development
of long-term
strategies
to achieve
policy
compliance.
Learn more
about our
some of our
customers:
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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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