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HiSoftware
and American Foundation for the
Blind Team Up to Make the Web More
Accessible to People with
Disabilities
Organizations to offer
each other’s solutions and services;
AFB’s Accessibility Assurance
Program and HiSoftware’s automated
accessibility monitoring solution
Compliance Sheriff
Nashua, NH and New York, NY —
March 19, 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 the American
Foundation for the Blind (AFB) (www.afb.org),
today at CSUN announced a strategic
alliance on Web accessibility. AFB
Consulting, the professional
consulting division of the American
Foundation for the Blind, will now
offer HiSoftware’s automated
monitoring solution, HiSoftware
Compliance Sheriff™ for
Accessibility, as part of AFB’s
Accessibility Assurance™ Program (AAP).
HiSoftware will now include the AAP
and AFB Consulting’s expert
consulting services as part of its
services offering.
“By teaming with HiSoftware, AFB
Consulting is now able to offer a
valuable automated monitoring option
to our AAP participants,” said Walt
Decker, executive vice president,
American Foundation for the Blind.
“The thorough and detailed
accessibility and compliance checks
performed by Compliance Sheriff are
a natural complement to the expert
usability evaluations performed by
our accessibility consultants. We
are very excited to make this
combination of services available
through our AAP solution.”
Kurt A. Mueffelmann, HiSoftware
president and CEO, states, “The
incorporation of HiSoftware
Compliance Sheriff for Accessibility
as part of the AAP and HiSoftware’s
addition of AAP services to its
offering will provide our mutual
clients with a powerful
all-encompassing accessibility
solution. This partnership allows
customers to benefit from an
end-to-end accessibility solution
that combines our automated
monitoring capabilities with the
leading user-empowered accessibility
program.”
As part of the strategic
alliance, both organizations will
offer each other’s services and
solutions:
The Accessibility Assurance
Program (AAP), available through AFB
Consulting, enables any organization
to make its web site(s) more
accessible to people with
disabilities. The AAP goes beyond
traditional consulting services and
embraces the concept of user
empowerment, enabling an
organization to proactively engage
the community of users with
disabilities and work constructively
with the user community to solve the
problems of web accessibility.
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.
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 AFB
Consulting AFB Consulting (http://www.afbconsulting.org)
is the consulting arm of the
American Foundation for the Blind
(AFB), a national organization based
in New York City with an 88-year
track record for groundbreaking
efforts to improve the quality of
life for people with vision loss and
other disabilities. Since AFB
Consulting's (AFBC) inception in
2002, its evaluations, developer
guidance, user support, training,
research, and innovative solutions
have assisted organizations in
identifying and eliminating barriers
to the accessibility and usability
of their products, services, web
sites, and workplaces. Thus, AFBC’s
solutions help commercial,
government, education, and
non-profit clients expand their
reach by making web sites, products,
and services useable for this
significant segment of the
population—54 million people in the
United States alone.
Media Contacts
HiSoftware
Contact
Irena Mroz, Marketing
HiSoftware Inc.
+1.603.578.1870
irena@hisoftware.com
AFB Consulting Contact
Marc Grossman
AFB Consulting
+1.212.502.7740
afbconsulting@afb.net
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