AccessABILITY Software Announces Low Cost Section 508 Remediation Services For Web Sites and Desktop Software to Assist Government Agencies and Software Vendors Comply With Section 508 Requirements.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 2003 Service Combines the Benefits of the 508 Wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. (TM) Product Suite and AccessABILITY Software's Experience in Building Section 508 Compliant Software AccessABILITY Software announced today that it now provides cost effective Section 508 Remediation services to Federal and State Government Agencies as well as to private companies selling software to Government Agencies. The services incorporate remediation of Web sites, Web applications, desktop and client-server (programming) client-server - A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds. applications. To further round out an organizations Section 508 compliance strategy, AccessABILITY, as part of this new offering, will provide accessibility programming training as well as Section 508 programming best practices to enable an organization to "build accessibility into" the software design and development process. "We acknowledge that both Governmental and private organizations want to embrace Section 508 where Web sites and software applications are concerned but are reluctant to do so because of budgetary constraints CONSTRAINTS - A language for solving constraints using value inference. ["CONSTRAINTS: A Language for Expressing Almost-Hierarchical Descriptions", G.J. Sussman et al, Artif Intell 14(1):1-39 (Aug 1980)]. or inherent lack of education about accessibility in the software development process," said Dan Bailey, president of AccessABILITY Software. "Embracing our end to end approach to accessibility will not only help these organizations save money and thereby accelerate the decision making process to make their Web sites and software applications more 508 compliant, but will educate their development staff so that they will be able to maintain accessibility into the future," added Bailey. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. Act (29 U.S.C. 794d) as amended a·mend v. a·mend·ed, a·mend·ing, a·mends v.tr. 1. To change for the better; improve: amended the earlier proposal so as to make it more comprehensive. 2. in 1998, requires that all Federal agencies and organizations selling software products to the Federal Government make electronic and information technology accessible to employees and individuals with disabilities who utilize government information. "We have entered the Section 508 Remediation Services market as a result of the demand from our existing customers and prospective customers. Since the launch of the 508 Wizard(TM) product suite about four months ago, it is being utilized and evaluated within about 20 Government and private companies. Due to the fact that we have built a Section 508 Compliant product for the Section 508 Sector, more and more of these organizations are asking us for assistance as it relates to making their HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , Web and Software Applications more compliant. " Key Service offerings include: -- Remediation of HTML, Web Applications, Desktop and Client/Server An architecture in which the user's PC (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). applications: -- Internal Section 508 Audits of existing legacy code -- Customized Section 508 migration planning including how to "build accessibility into " the development process; -- Teaches developers how to build Section 508 Compliant Java, Visual C++ and Visual Basic code; About AccessABILITY Software AccessABILITY Software, a division of Objectiva Software Solutions Inc., is a privately held provider of Section 508 compliance products and services. Its patent pending product, the 508 Wizard(TM), is the leading Section 508 software development tool for desktop and client/server software applications. AccessABILITY Software assists Governmental agencies, System Integrators See systems integrator. and Software companies in accelerating their Section 508 compliance implementations. The 508 Wizard(TM) provides software development staff an efficient development tool to easily evaluate, remediate re·me·di·a·tion n. The act or process of correcting a fault or deficiency: remediation of a learning disability. re·me , and validate To prove something to be sound or logical. Also to certify conformance to a standard. Contrast with "verify," which means to prove something to be correct. For example, data entry validity checking determines whether the data make sense (numbers fall within a range, numeric data Section 508 compliance of legacy and newly developed VB and Java source code. For further information regarding our product pricing or about our Section 508 Services, visit us at www.accessabilitysoftware.com or contact us at Info@508wizard.com. |
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