Internal
Revenue Service Extends Licensing
Agreement for HiSoftware Web
Management Solutions
Concord, NH June
13, 2005 – HiSoftware Company
announced today that the Internal
Revenue Service (“IRS”) has extended
its licensing agreement for HiSoftware
Company content quality and
accessibility solutions. This extends
a licensing agreement that the IRS
originally entered into in August of
2004 through the end of the 2006
fiscal year. Through this agreement,
HiSoftware Company’s desktop software
solutions will be utilized for
evaluation, remediation and ongoing
monitoring of IRS intranet web sites
and Web applications for conformance
to both statutory and organizational
accessibility and content quality
standards.
Under the terms of
the agreement, HiSoftware Company will
provide its AccVerify DS2 2005 and
AccRepair DS2 2005 to IRS for use by
its webmasters, application
developers, and compliance experts. In
addition to “out-of-the-box” testing
and reporting for Accessibility,
Privacy, Metadata, Site Structure and
Usability standards, HiSoftware
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.
HiSoftware’s end-to-end software
solutions enable customers to
proactively manage online privacy.
HiSoftware solutions allow users to
monitor Web sites for data collection,
security and sharing practices, opt-in
and opt-out choices, broken links,
missing privacy policies, third party
linking, P3P and the use of tracking
technologies. The final result is a
complete and concise report on the
total accessibility, quality and
policy compliance status of content
that has been tested.
Internal Revenue Service Web
application developers will utilize
HiSoftware’s user-driven interactive
desktop solutions, AccVerify DS2 2005
and AccRepair DS2 2005 to test and
remediate their projects for
compliance with Section 508
accessibility standards, Section 208
privacy standards, and other content
quality standards. HiSoftware’s
accessibility testing solutions test
for over 187 comprehensive
accessibility checks and for the level
of compliance recommended by the U.S
Government's Section 508 legislation.
These solutions also include
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. Through this agreement, the
IRS team also licenses HiSoftware
Hi-Caption solutions for multimedia
captioning.
The Internal Revenue Service joins a
growing list of Federal government
agencies turning to HiSoftware Company
for content quality and accessibility
compliance solutions, including the
U.S. Army Materiel Command, US
Geological Survey and Department of
Defense. HiSoftware Company also works
with Fortune 1000 corporations
including Microsoft Corporation,
Mercury Interactive, and Fidelity
Investments, State and local
government agencies and educational
institutions:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/scustomers.html
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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further information visit HiSoftware's
investor relations website at:
http://www.hisoftware.com/co/investor_relations.htm
All information in this release is as
of June 13, 2005. The company
undertakes no duty to update any
forward-looking statement to conform
the statement to actual results or
changes in the company's expectations.
