Deque Systems Inc. Announces a New Program for a One Accessible World" - Partnerships for a One Accessible World Program

Deque Systems Inc. today announced a new program -- Partnerships for a One Accessible World". In order to promote accessible practices and methods Deque is offering, at no cost, Ramp Personal Edition to educators and organizations who share the companys vision for an accessible online world.

Reston, VA (PRWEB) July 25, 2005 -- Deque Ramp Personal Edition, enables individual web site creators to interactively test web pages under development for compliance with the US Rehabilitation Act Section 508 as well as the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C WAI WCAG), one page at a time.

People with disabilities use alternative browsing techniques. For instance, they need to adjust font-sizes or color attributes, or use speech output, or might be able to use either a keyboard or a mouse- and not both. Unless Web pages are coded as per the accessibility guidelines and standards, they are unable to access news, shop online, bank online or do a host of other Web based activities.

"Across the web, accessibility levels are low", said Dr. Jonathan Lazar, associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University in Maryland. Dr. Lazar who also regularly presents tutorials on usability and human-computer interaction, added, Part of the challenge is teaching our students, the web developers and webmasters of the future, about the
importance of accessibility. I feel that by getting products such as Deque Ram Personal Edition in the hands of students, we can improve web accessibility levels in the future."

Deques Director for Accessibility Practices Sailesh Panchang, who has an M.S. in Rehabilitation Technology and uses screen reading software added, Deques automated accessibility testing tools significantly reduce the time it takes to conduct a Web accessibility audit and lets the human auditor focus attention on accessibility issues that need human judgment for identification."

Deque Ramp Personal Edition is the third product in Deques accessibility management product line. It ships with plug ins for Macromedia Dreamweaver®, Microsoft FrontPage® and Macromedia HomeSite®.

Deque Ramp Personal Edition also provides the user with necessary guidance to correct the accessibility issues identified.

Deques move will put a tool that automatically checks HTML code for accessibility related faults in the hands of students learning Web content design. Deques other product Deque-Ramp-Ascend which retails at $1,499 can spider websites and even repair code when accessibility violations are detected. Deque-Worldspace is an enterprise solution more suited for mid-sized and large organizations to detect, repair accessibility violations and continually monitor adherence to Web standards.

Students and organizations eligible for a free copy of Deque-Ramp-PE may seek more information about this program by writing to info@deque.com.

About Deque Inc
Deque is the technology leader in web accessibility and content standards management. Deque is the market leader in cross-platform solutions, equally supporting Microsoft Windows 2000®, Microsoft Windows XP®, Apple Macintosh OS X®, Linux, and Unix®. For more information about Deque, visit www.deque.com.

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