HiSoftware and AbilityNet Form Strategic Partnership

Organizations partner to offer end-to-end accessibility solutions and testing services throughout the United Kingdom

Nashua, NH, USA and London, UK — April 29, 2009 — HiSoftware (www.hisoftware.com), a leading provider of software, services and managed operation solutions that monitor and optimize Web content, quality and regulatory compliance, and AbilityNet (http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/), today announced a strategic partnership at the Internet World 2009 conference in London, UK. As partners, AbilityNet and HiSoftware will be able to offer customers in the UK and Europe the powerful combination of HiSoftware’s automated monitoring solution HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff™ and AbilityNet’s range of expert accessibility and usability services.

Nigel Lewis, AbilityNet CEO, said, “AbilityNet offers a range of services to help organizations deliver accessible and usable websites. The addition of HiSoftware’s automated accessibility solutions to our user testing and auditing services allows us to provide our customers with a complete solution for achieving Web accessibility.”

AbilityNet is a UK charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. As a HiSoftware value-added solution partner, AbilityNet will now resell HiSoftware’s accessibility and content compliance solution HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff™, in addition to their existing Web services offering. HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff provides organizations with an easy way to successfully develop and maintain best-of-breed web sites that promote the highest standards in Web governance, supporting a high quality user experience. It enables organizations to easily validate their web site and applications content against standards-based and custom organizational policies for accessibility and privacy compliance. Compliance Sheriff allows organizations to integrate a comprehensive and automated solution for managing Web Governance standards as part their best practices.

AbilityNet has been auditing websites and software applications since 2000. Their auditing expertise is based upon everyday working with disabled individuals and the technologies they use – and though a range of tools is used to assist the auditing process, audits are predominantly manual, in-depth and informed by practical experience. AbilityNet also offers a number of different disabled user testing services to meet all requirements; home user testing, moderated testing, and full lab testing.

Kurt A. Mueffelmann, HiSoftware president and CEO, states, “We are pleased to expand our relationship with AbilityNet, making our accessibility solutions more readily available throughout the UK. By providing customers with HiSoftware’s leading automated accessibility solutions and their manual testing services, AbilityNet can uniquely deliver a true end-to-end accessibility solution to their customers.”

About HiSoftware

Founded in 1998, HiSoftware (www.hisoftware.com) is a leading provider of software, services and On-demand solutions that test, repair, monitor and enforce Web content, quality and regulatory compliance. The company’s solutions empower content developers, Web site architects and executives to work collaboratively to create and manage corporate Web standards for accessibility, privacy, security, search engine optimization (SEO), site quality and performance, branding and application transaction testing.

About AbilityNet

AbilityNet is a charity that brings the benefits of computer technology to adults and children with all types of disabilities. AbilityNet offers a comprehensive range of services to disabled people, professionals, employers and statutory bodies. It provides free information and advice on any aspect of computer use by disabled people including individual assessment of technology needs, adapted computer equipment with full training and technical support, a program of awareness education, and consultancy for employers on system and workstation adaptations, as well as website and software accessibility.

Media Contacts

HiSoftware Contact
Irena Mroz, Marketing
HiSoftware Inc.
+1.603.578.1870
irena@hisoftware.com

AbilityNet Contact
Carrie Saint-Freedman
AbilityNet
01926 429595
press.office@abilitynet.org.uk