U.S. Geological
Survey- Extends Licensing Agreement
for HiSoftware Web Management
Solutions
Concord, NH July 28, 2004 – HiSoftware
Company announced today that the U.S.
Geological Survey (“USGS”)-has
extended its licensing agreement with
HiSoftware Company for enterprise-wide
deployment of its “Acc” product line.
Through this agreement, both
HiSoftware Company’s desktop and
back-end server side software
solutions will be utilized for
evaluation, remediation and ongoing
monitoring of USGS Web sites and Web
based applications for conformance to
Section 508 Accessibility Standards,
and organizational content quality
standards. This extends a licensing
agreement that USGS originally entered
into with HiSoftware in August 2003
through the end of 2005.
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. USGS
will also be using HiSoftware
solutions to create and manage
captioning for the audio portions of
their multi-media Web site
presentations.
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 USGS
with a simple, cost-effective way to
manage accessibility and content
quality testing within their
development environments, 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
USGS joins a growing list of customers
turning to HiSoftware Company for
accessibility solutions, including but
not limited to Microsoft Government,
Mercury Interactive, Commerce One, the
Internal Revenue Service, US Army
Materiel Command, and 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.
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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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of July 28, 2004. The company
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