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AccMonitor ably monitors compliance.(Software Review)(Evaluation)

Publication: eWeek

Publication Date: 23-JUL-01

Author: Windman, Russell
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COPYRIGHT 2001 Ziff Davis Media Inc.

Hiawatha Island Software Co. Inc.'s AccMonitor Server software is a versatile Web crawler that checks Web sites for compliance with new Section 508 federal accessibility guidelines and generates reports in a variety of formats.

In eWeek Labs' tests, AccMonitor Server proved to be a good tool for assessing site compliance and reporting its findings in detail as part of a remediation assessment or verification effort. However, it leaves actual code repair on the server to AccRepair, a separate product priced at $995. AccRepair, available as a stand-alone tool or as a Microsoft FrontPage add-on, will fix the "programmatic checkpoints" automatically when deployed on a server.

A crawler shouldn't be in the business of modifying code; still, HISoftware's line of products seems as if it could be consolidated somewhat by having some products combine monitor and repair capabilities.

AccMonitor Server produced...

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