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EastBay Media to utilize Hi-Caption
to create synchronized captioning for multimedia broadcasts
Concord, NH March 3, 2003 – HiSoftware Company
announced today that EastBay Media has selected Hi-Caption
for the creation and management of synchronized captioning
for multimedia broadcasts for the Naval Media Center‘s Navy
NewsStand web portal (www.news.navy.mil).
Through this agreement, Hi-Caption will be utilized for captioning
Multimedia files for conformance to Section 508 Accessibility
Standards, and organizational content quality standards.
Hi-Caption allows for fast efficient creation,
editing, and testing of the captioning of Multimedia. The
captioning file is stored in a SAMI and/or a SMIL file. SAMI
is an acronym for Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange
and SMIL is an acronym for Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language. The files are very similar to HTML, but are a different
language. Hi-Caption supports creating captioning files for
programs such as Windows ® Media Player ®,
RealNetworks ® RealOne ® and Apple ®
QuickTime ®. Just as you would rather use a web
editor to create web files, this program allows you to easily
create the formatted captioning file, without having to learn
the code behind it.
"Captioning is a very important and
sometimes overlooked component of accessible Web Development,"
said Robert B. Yonaitis, President and CEO of HiSoftware Company.
"As more and more organizations turn to multimedia development
as part of their standard Web offerings, the ability to easily
create captioning is critical to the success of these projects.
Captioning provides the ability to present organization in
benefits not only the hearing impaired, but also those accessing
the Internet from location or devices that may not be sound
enabled. Captioning also provides countless benefits for language
presentation"
"Prior to using Hi-Caption, the Navy NewsStand
website offered just a text transcript for each video that
was not synchronized with the media", said Brad Pumphrey,
President of EastBay Media. "Now that we are utilizing Hi-Caption,
web producers can quickly and easily add synchronized captions
to the media files allowing for an improved user experience
and full Section 508 compliance. We are very happy with the
results."
HiSoftware's content quality and accessibility
solutions product line includes a combination of user-driven
interactive desktop solutions that allow developers to test
their content for conformance with standards, and server-
side applications that provide managers with automated and
remote testing. A scalable architecture provides a faster
deployment time and lower cost of ownership for the solution
set. Used together these solutions enable developers, testers
and project teams to verify Web site accessibility in compliance
with Section 508, as well as Custom corporate-content quality
standards. More information about these applications is available
from the HiSoftware Web site: http://www.hisoftware.com/access/index.html.
EastBay Media joins a growing list of customers
turning to HiSoftware Company for accessibility solutions,
including but not limited to Microsoft Government, Mercury
Interactive, Commerce One, the Internal Revenue Service, US
Army Materiel Command, and Department of Defense. Additional
customer information is available from HiSoftware's Web site:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/scustomers.html
About HiSoftware HiSoftware Company, the
leader in enterprise content quality management solutions,
provides innovative products that empower quality assurance
teams, content developers, Web site architects, and company
executives to work collaboratively on their efforts to create
and manage corporate Web standards for Accessibility, Privacy,
Searchability, Usability and custom guidelines and policies.
HiSoftware's integrated, full lifecycle solutions dramatically
reduce the time required to test, manage and deploy e-business
Web sites.
HiSoftware works closely with industry leaders
and visionaries to provide solutions for today's information
accessibility, content quality, search and retrieval needs.
HiSoftware's customers represent Fortune 500 companies, and
many of the largest e-commerce, government, and educational
sites in North America and around the world and include ChevronTexaco,
Commerce One, Mercury Interactive, and Microsoft Government.
Founded in 1998, HiSoftware Company maintains
North American corporate headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire.
Further information about HiSoftware can be found online at
www.hisoftware.com.
About EastBay Media
EastBay Media is a leading provider digital
media and Internet video services and solutions. Headquartered
in the Washington, DC area, the company assists Government
agencies, universities, broadcasters, and companies utilize
digital media technology. Our expertise, real world experience,
and comprehensive services and solutions are designed to help
organizations leverage the best technologies in the most effective
way. We are recognized experts in streaming media solutions,
webcasting, video hosting, media asset management, conversion
and encoding, and digital media consulting. EastBay Media
can be found on the web at http://www.EastBayMedia.com.
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