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HiSoftware
Introduces the Accessibility Kit for
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
New release
of popular Public source toolkit to
offer more flexibility for
customized Microsoft SharePoint
Server 2010 environments and support
new WCAG 2.0 accessibility
guidelines
Nashua, NH and Las Vegas, NV –
October 20, 2009 – HiSoftware Inc.
(www.hisoftware.com), a leading
provider of Microsoft SharePoint
products compliance and
accessibility solutions and a
Microsoft ISV partner, today
announced the company will introduce
and demonstrate the HiSoftware
Accessibility Kit for Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2010 (AKS 2010)
during the Microsoft SharePoint
Conference 2009, October 18-22, 2009
in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The new
version of the widely downloaded
Microsoft public license solution
will allow organizations developing
a customized SharePoint Server 2010
platform to provide the highest
levels of accessibility to meet the
rapidly changing global regulatory
guidelines.
Thomas Logan, Vice President of
Product Solutions for HiSoftware,
said, “With over 7,500 downloads of
the current AKS version for
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
2007, HiSoftware is pleased to
continue to provide the SharePoint
community with a solution to assist
with meeting their platform
accessibility requirements. Based
upon the newly released WCAG 2.0
accessibility guidelines, AKS 2010
will leverage the significant
improvements in accessibility by
providing organizations with the
ability to select Web-parts and
Adapters that can easily work in a
customized environment.”
Logan continued, “In addition,
developers will be able to test
their entire SharePoint Server 2010
environment against the latest
accessibility standards through an
integrated commercial offering of
HiSoftware’s new AKS 2010
AccValidator™ module. By
incorporating HiSoftware Compliance
Sheriff for SharePoint 2010, an
organization can add the ability to
monitor and test content for
accessibility and other regulatory
issues for an end-to-end enterprise
compliance solution.”
AKS 2010 significantly reduces
the level of effort and knowledge
needed by customers and partners to
improve the accessibility of the new
SharePoint 2010 platform.
Key features to be included in
AKS 2010:
- Re-architected to access
content using Document Object
Model
- Support for new WCAG 2.0
guidelines and ARIA (Accessible
Rich Internet Applications)
specification
- Easily extensible to provide
accessibility fixes for third
party controls and customized
out of the box controls
- Improved feature deployment
- Updated set of default
templates including additional
site design, color, and font
options
- Improved developer
documentation
- Optional integration to
HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff®
to provide additional
functionality including:
- Ability to flag warning/fail
for templates that do not have
accessible contrast ratios
- Allows for easier AKS 2010
implementation into customized
sites, enabling users to set-up
an initial site(s) scan which
will generate a report
indicating which part(s) of the
AKS 2010 kit to apply. This
integration improves efficiency,
adding only the control adapters
relevant to a particular site
configuration.
HiSoftware successfully launched
the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint
(AKS) v1.0 in early 2008, along with
a Web-based partner and customer
community (https://aks.hisoftware.com).
More than 7,500 organizations from
fifty countries have downloaded AKS
v1 and v2 which are available under
the Microsoft Public License (Open
Source see
http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/licenses.mspx).
AKS is intended to be a community
based project to which other
organizations can contribute.
HiSoftware will be at the
Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009
exhibit hall in booth 708. The
company will also hold a series of
limited-seating Roundtable events
and executive briefing sessions
during the conference.
About
HiSoftware Inc.
Founded in 1998, HiSoftware Inc.
(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.
Media Contact
Irena Mroz, Marketing
HiSoftware Inc.
+1.603.578.1870
irena@hisoftware.com
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