CORDA Technologies Releases PopChart Xpress -- Tool for Creating; Web-Ready 508 Compliant Charts and Graphs in Minutes.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LINDON, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 16, 2001 New Charting and Graphing Solution Enables Users to Create Accessible, Interactive Charts and Graphs from Spreadsheet spreadsheet Computer software that allows the user to enter columns and rows of numbers in a ledgerlike format. Any cell of the ledger may contain either data or a formula that describes the value that should be inserted therein based on the values in other cells. Data CORDA Technologies Inc., a Lindon-based developer of fast, interactive charting and graphing solutions for the Web, Thursday announced the release of PopChart Xpress(TM). PopChart Xpress' patents pending technology lets desktop users copy data from spreadsheet applications such as Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. (R) and quickly and easily create Web-ready charts and graphs that are 508 compliant. The charts and graphs have the interactive features of drilldown and popup text that provide chart viewers instant access to additional information. PopChart Xpress makes creating charts and graphs simple with PopChart 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) a chart designer tool that is similar to a spreadsheet wizard. A user defines the graph or chart appearance and formatting, then simply copies the data from the spreadsheet and pastes it into PopChart Wizard. PopChart Xpress builds all required 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. code and images so the chart or graph can be published to the Web. Charts and graphs created with PopChart Xpress are always displayed at the highest possible quality on browsers. Xpress creates graphs as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) A vector graphics format from the W3C for the Web that is expressed in XML. Introduced in 2001, SVG was designed to become the standard vector format just as GIFs and JPEGs have become the standard bitmaps for the Web. , Flash and GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. images then automatically detects the capability of the browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used and delivers the highest quality image the browser will display. Charts and graphs created with PopChart Xpress are compliant with section 508 of the federal government accessibility requirements. PopChart Xpress eliminates the time-consuming process of manually writing a description for each chart by automatically generating the descriptive text that explains the image in text form. A screen reader then converts the generated text to speech so that a visually impaired person Noun 1. visually impaired person - someone who has inferior vision individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" can access the information displayed in the chart. Neal Williams, chief executive officer of CORDA Technologies said, "We are extremely excited about the addition of PopChart Xpress to our charting and graphing family. Many of our customers asked us to create a solution that would allow them to create interactive charts and graphs from their spreadsheet data. We think PopChart Xpress exceeds their expectations." CORDA Technologies is the global leader for interactive data driven graphics and the first and only company to provide 508 compliant charts and graphs with descriptive text. With more flexibility, scalability and speed than any other charting solutions, CORDA's family of tools and services are the leading choice for fast and easy-to-build charts and graphs. CORDA's solutions display data as visual images allowing customers to explore relationships, perform analysis and more easily understand their data. |
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