Dartmouth College to pilot HiSoftware’s AccMonitor To Monitor Accessibility of College Web Site
HiSoftware’s AccMonitor Helps Dartmouth Develop Accessible Web Site

CONCORD, NH – September 20, 2002 -- HiSoftware, Inc., a leading provider of Web Site Accessibility solutions, today announced that Dartmouth College would be piloting its AccMonitor™ software. The software will be used to test and monitor the College web site in an effort to make the site accessible to all users.

Installation of the software is planned to coincide with the campus-wide distribution of an informational booklet entitled “Working Toward an Accessible Dartmouth Web.” The booklet is designed to help web authors at the College understand the issues surrounding web access and what they can do to make their sites accessible. The booklet is the work of the Web Access Group (WAG), an ad hoc committee formed in 2002 to help make Dartmouth’s Web site accessible and navigable to all users.

Dartmouth College joins a growing list of schools and universities that use HiSoftware Company’s accessibility solutions, including but not limited to University of Maine, University of Wisconsin, Kansas State University, University of Massachusetts, UCLA, and many others. HiSoftware Company also has enterprise software license agreements with both federal and state government agencies and works with several Fortune 1000 corporations including Microsoft Corporation, Mercury Interactive, and Fidelity Investments: http://www.hisoftware.com/access/scustomers.html.

Under the terms of the pilot license agreement, HiSoftware Company will provide its AccMonitor Server enterprise software to Dartmouth College for use by its staff, faculty and students for one year. HiSoftware will also work with the Dartmouth College Web Access Group to create a campus-wide training program for users of the software.

“We will use AccMonitor to educate people about the accessibility of the sites they create and manage, and to help them make sure that their sites can be used by people who use tools like screen readers or text-only browsers to access the Web,” said Sarah Horton, web developer for Academic Computing and Web Access Group Chair.

About AccMonitor
AccMonitor is an automated server solution that examines entire Web Sites, and reports their accessibility status under Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 and W3C® WCAG 1.0 Guidelines. AccMonitor verification technology and dynamic reporting includes executive-level graphical reporting, automated email alerts, and detailed reports for all Web files or only files that fail programmatic checkpoints. Running as a Windows® service, AccMonitor is an automated accessibility testing solution for Web sites or for use in conjunction with intranet servers or file servers. Using a crawler, AccMonitor tests sites for compliance with Section 508 and W3C accessibility standards. AccMonitor spiders, or crawls over, entire Web sites and reports on their accessibility status. AccMonitor particularly benefits organizations that need to monitor multiple servers that host information via the World Wide Web. AccMonitor is a server solution that is designed to run with no user interaction once configured. AccMonitor can be scheduled to crawl Web sites daily, weekly, or monthly. It also allows users to log-on for “on demand” reports on the accessibility status of their Web pages.

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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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