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State of Florida Department of
Transportation Selects HiSoftware
Content Quality and Accessibility
Solutions
Concord, NH April 24, 2003 – HiSoftware
Company, the leader in enterprise
content quality management solutions,
announced today that the State of
Florida Department of Transportation
will be implementing AccVerify,
AccRepair and AccMonitor Server from
HiSoftware Company to manage its Section
508 compliance, and content quality
initiatives. HiSoftware solutions
provide “out-of-the-box” testing and
reporting for Accessibility, Privacy,
Searchability and Usability standards,
empowering organizations to keep up with
ever-changing Web technologies and
standards. The software will be used to
evaluate, remediate State of Florida
Department of Transportation web sites
and Web applications for content quality
standards and conformance with
accessibility guidelines.
The State of Florida Department of
Transportation joins a growing list of
government agencies turning to
HiSoftware Company for content quality
and accessibility compliance solutions,
including the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Internal Revenue
Service, and Department of Defense.
HiSoftware Company also works with
Fortune 1000 corporations including
Microsoft Corporation, Mercury
Interactive, and Commerce One, State and
local government agencies and
educational institutions:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/scustomers.html
Under the terms of the agreement,
HiSoftware Company will provide an
enterprise license of its AccMonitor
Server software to the State of Florida
Department of Transportation for use by
its webmasters, application developers,
and Section 508 compliance experts.
AccMonitor is an automated content
quality and accessibility testing
solution for Web sites, or for use in
conjunction with intranet servers or
file servers. 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.
State
of Florida Department of Transportation
Web application developers will also be
able to utilize HiSoftware’s user-driven
interactive desktop solutions, AccVerify
and AccRepair, and AccVerify and
AccRepair for Microsoft FrontPage to
test and remediate their projects for
compliance with Section 508 and other
content quality standards. These
solutions also include the new
HiSoftware Link Validation Utility,
which assists with quality and
accessibility assurance by scanning and
analyzing web content for broken links,
producing detailed reports to help
developers and quality assurance
professionals pinpoint and fix content,
interaction, and usability defects.
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.
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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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