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Virginia Tech Selects HiSoftware for Website Accessibility
Web Compliance Solution Chosen to improve Accessibility for All
Nashua, NH / Blacksburg, VA – August 5, 2008 –
HiSoftware Inc. (www.hisoftware.com),
a leading provider of software,
services and managed operation
solutions that monitor and optimize
Web content governance, quality and
regulatory compliance, today
announced that Virginia Tech (www.vt.edu)
has selected HiSoftware’s Compliance
Sheriff to meet their Website
quality management initiative for
accessibility.
Bill Holbach, Director of
Assistive Technologies and Research
Applications at Virginia Tech
stated, “Accessibility is no longer
just about social responsibility,
but key in providing a high quality
web presence for our students,
faculty, and staff and for the
public that we serve. HiSoftware’s
Compliance Sheriff is another tool
for website development at Virginia
Tech that, when fully implemented,
we expect to use for monitoring the
quality of accessibility standards
and providing a more functional and
efficient web presence.”
HiSoftware’s Compliance Sheriff
is an enterprise-based browser
solution that is available as
standard software or as an On-Demand
/ Hosted offering. It requires
minimal user interaction and
configuration based upon the latest
world-wide accessibility guidelines
(Section 508 and WCAG 1.0 / 2.0).
Compliance Sheriff can be scheduled
to crawl and verify content on a
user-defined basis. In addition, it
can email reports or hyperlinks to
the location of reports of all files
verified or only those that fail
compliance according to the rules
you choose. Compliance Sheriff
provides an integrated digital
dashboard that incorporates
streamlined report viewers and
preview modes so users can test
their pages for optimal performance
under variable end-user scenarios.
The dashboard reporting system
provides easy access to executive
level summary reports so that IT
managers can quickly obtain status
reports within the application
interface.
HiSoftware President and CEO,
Kurt A. Mueffelmann, said, “We are
pleased to be selected by Virginia
Tech and add them to our growing
list of educational customers using
Compliance Sheriff. As educational
websites rapidly grow in size and
complexity, HiSoftware is able to
provide institutions with the
software and services that make
available the ability to monitor,
audit, test, and repair their web
properties for overall web
compliance and accessibility.”
About
Virginia Tech
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant
college, Virginia Tech (www.vt.edu)
is the most comprehensive university
in the Commonwealth of Virginia and
is among the top research
universities in the nation. Today,
Virginia Tech’s eight colleges are
dedicated to quality, innovation,
and results through teaching,
research, and outreach activities.
At its 2,600-acre main campus
located in Blacksburg and other
campus centers in Northern Virginia,
Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads,
Richmond, Southside, and Roanoke,
Virginia Tech enrolls more than
28,000 undergraduate and graduate
students from all 50 states and more
than 100 countries in 180 academic
degree programs.
About HiSoftware
Inc.
Founded in 1998, HiSoftware 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, competitive
intelligence and application
transaction testing. HiSoftware’s
customers boast many of the world’s
largest public and private sites
including U.S. and international
government agencies, State of New
York, Main.gov, California State
University, and Global 2000
companies such as HP, BBC-Worldwide,
ANZ Bank, Tata Consulting and
Microsoft. In total, HiSoftware
provides solutions to more than
4,000 organizations in 88 countries.
For more information about
HiSoftware visit
www.hisoftware.com.
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Company Contact
John Rogers, CFO/COO
HiSoftware Inc.
+1.603.578.1870
jr@hisoftware.com
Media Contact
Brenton West, Marketing
HiSoftware Inc.
+1.603.578.1870
b.west@hisoftware.com
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