Virginia Tech Selects HiSoftware for Website Accessibility

Business Wire, August 5, 2008

Web Compliance Solution Chosen to improve Accessibility for All

NASHUA, N.H. and BLACKSBURG, Va. -- 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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