U.S. Department of Transportation-
Extends Licensing Agreement for
HiSoftware Web Management Solutions
Concord, NH September 20, 2004 –
HiSoftware Company announced today
that the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) -has extended its
licensing agreement with HiSoftware
Company for enterprise-wide deployment
of its AccMonitor Server Software.
Through this agreement, HiSoftware
Company’s back-end server side
software solution AccMonitor will be
utilized as part of a program for
evaluation and ongoing monitoring of
Web sites and Web based applications
tested by the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) for conformance
to Section 508 Accessibility
Standards, and organizational content
quality standards. This extends a
licensing agreement that U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT)
originally entered into with
HiSoftware in 2002 through the year
2006.
In
addition to “out-of-the-box” testing
and reporting for Accessibility,
Privacy, Metadata and Usability
standards, these solutions allow an
organization’s experts and/or policy
managers to define content policies
and then provides a solution to
validate compliance with these
policies. The final result is a
complete and concise report on the
total accessibility, quality and
policy compliance status of content
that has been tested.
HiSoftware’s “Acc” 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 applications that provide
managers with automated and remote
testing. A scalable architecture
provides a faster deployment time and
lower cost of ownership for the
solution set. Used together these
solutions enable developers, testers
and project teams to verify Web site
accessibility in compliance with
Section 508, as well as Custom
corporate-content quality standards.
The solutions provide U.S. Department
of Transportation (DOT)with a simple,
cost-effective way to manage
accessibility and content quality
testing within their development
environments, while at the same time
providing a centralized reporting
system and audit trail for Web content
compliance status.
More information about these
applications is available from the
HiSoftware Web site:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/index.html
U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT) joins a growing list of
customers turning to HiSoftware
Company for accessibility solutions,
including but not limited to:
Microsoft Government, Mercury
Interactive, Priceline.com, the
Internal Revenue Service, US Air
Force, and the Department of Defense.
Additional customer information is
available from HiSoftware’s Web site:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/scustomers.html
Section 508, an amendment to the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, requires
electronic and information technology
that is used, developed, and procured
by the Federal government to be
accessible to people with
disabilities.
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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HiSoftware is a trademark of Hiawatha
Island Software Company, Inc. Any and
all other product and company names
mentioned herein are the trademarks or
service marks of their respective
owners.
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All information in this release is as
of September 20, 2004. The company
undertakes no duty to update any
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