American Foundation for the Blind And Interliant Announce Alliance; Interliant Contracted to Revolutionize Online Experience for Visually Impaired Individuals.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2000

Interliant, Inc. (NASDAQ: INIT), the leading global Application Service Provider (ASP), announced today that it has formed an alliance with the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) that will have a major impact on the accessibility of Internet information and services for people who are blind or visually impaired.

To launch the alliance, Interliant has been contracted to transform the AFB Web site into an online resource center for visually impaired individuals worldwide, including approximately 10 million individuals in the U.S., their family and friends, the thousands of organizations and professionals who serve them, and the writers, researchers, and legislators who are interested in this population.

"If Helen Keller were alive today, I expect that the World Wide Web would be as accessible as libraries and public buildings," said Carl Augusto, chief executive officer of AFB. "The online community that we are building with Interliant will bring Keller's vision of a barrier-free world for blind or visually impaired people into the 21st century - an ideal to which AFB has been committed to since we began working for visually impaired Americans nearly 80 years ago. The community will provide direct access to the unique body of knowledge that AFB has accumulated, including comprehensive information on services available to blind or visually impaired individuals in the United States and Canada."

"Just as Interliant is revolutionizing the way organizations access application solutions, this joint project with AFB will revolutionize Internet access for blind or visually impaired individuals," said Leonard J. Fassler, co-chairman of Interliant. "Interliant truly believes in AFB's mission, and we are committed to helping AFB develop a community to provide equal access to the wealth of information that the Internet delivers. We believe that accessibility and appeal to sighted individuals can go hand-in-hand."

Fassler also serves as co-chair of AFB's 2000 Helen Keller Achievement Awards dinner, which is being held this evening (May 23) in New York City.

Although blind or visually impaired people today can access the Internet through the use of a Web browser, adaptive equipment, and/or synthetic speech software, common web site design often generates unreliable results. The online community under development will provide an accessible Web environment in which these tools can be used to navigate through a virtual clearinghouse of information.

In addition, the community will include an accessible storefront. There will also be a community center where members can collaborate with each other, exchanging information, and reviewing event announcements and job opportunities.

Because the community will feature graphics designed to appeal to sighted users, it will illustrate that visual aesthetics need not be compromised if a Web site is made accessible to the visually impaired. Interliant and AFB anticipate that the community will go live this summer.

"We will combine Interliant's technical skills with AFB's subject matter expertise to level the playing field for blind and visually impaired Internet users," said David O'Neill, Interliant's senior director of consulting and professional services.

O'Neill, whose experience in developing accessible technology solutions spans more than 10 years, will oversee the development of the AFB community with a team of sighted and visually impaired professionals.

"This is the first of many services that Interliant will be able to provide to AFB," O'Neill added. "Our ability to furnish AFB with everything from business process modeling to applications development and hosting underscores the value that an ASP total solution brings to a company or organization. We manage the technology completely so that AFB can focus on its core mission."

The American Foundation for the Blind - the organization to which Helen Keller devoted more than 40 years of her life - is a national nonprofit whose mission is to eliminate the inequities faced by the ten million Americans who are blind or visually impaired.

Headquartered in New York City, AFB maintains offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco, and a governmental relations office in Washington, D.C.

About Interliant, Inc.

Interliant, Inc. (NASDAQ: INIT) is a leading application service provider (ASP) and pioneer in the ASP market. Interliant's offerings include messaging and knowledge management, security, e-commerce, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, distributed learning, Web-site hosting and Web-based rental applications via AppsOnline.com.

Interliant, headquartered in Purchase, N.Y., maintains strategic alliances with the world's leading software, networking, and hardware manufacturers including Dell Computer Corporation (NASDAQ: DELL), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMCS), and Network Solutions (NASDAQ: NSOL). For more information, please visit the Interliant Web site, www.interliant.com.

Interliant is a registered trademark of Interliant, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.

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