Immediacy partners with Fortune
Cookie for accessible web content management
Core functionality in
Immediacy WCMs 6.0 that helps users create accessible web
sites is a key factor in a new partnership with
the leading digital agency and accessibility
specialist Fortune Cookie
3rd January 2008 – Immediacy,
part of the Mediasurface group (UK, AIM: MSR) and Europe’s leading
CMS provider, together with Fortune Cookie, one of the UK’s leading
digital agencies announced today a partnership to deliver
accessible content management.
Fortune Cookie puts usability by disabled
people at the heart of its design process, and has won more RNIB
awards for creating accessible web sites for its clients (which
include Legal & General, Kuoni and Diabetes UK) than any other
digital agency. The 1995 Disability Discrimination Act places
a legal duty on web site owners to ensure that disabled people can
use their web sites. Fortune Cookie sought a content
management solution for their clients that would enable them to
deliver and manage content to the highest standards of
accessibility. Last month’s launch of Immediacy WCMs 6.0
included specific features to help with accessibility, including a
built-in Compliance Checker to ensure that sites remain conformant
with international web accessibility guidelines and up-to-date with
key legislation and regulations. The accessibility features
in Immediacy WCMs 6.0 were a key factor in cementing the
partnership.
Justin Cooke, Managing Director of Fortune
Cookie said, “We’re really excited about the partnership with
Immediacy. Immediacy’s content management solution ticks all
our clients’ boxes; the CMS is easy to use, the company offers
great support and accessibility checking is built in.”
Immediacy specialises in developing
sophisticated web content management software, enabling
non-technical users to create and manage content, carry out
administrative tasks and add functionality across web sites,
intranets and extranets.
“We’re really pleased to have signed an
agreement with a partner of Fortune Cookie’s calibre,” said Matt
Goode, Sales Director for Immediacy. “Ensuring content is
accessible not only takes innovative technology, but also extremely
high levels of market awareness and integration expertise.
Fortune Cookie delivers on these requirements and we’re looking
forward to tackling new projects with them in the near future.”
Immediacy provides its web content management
system to a wide range of UK companies including the BBC,
JPMorganChase, Avis, Principality Building Society, British
Transport Police, The British Council, National Express, The Hilton
Group, phones 4U, Equal Opportunities Commission, Amicus Trade
Union, British Gypsum, ElanIT, MerseyCare NHS Trust and numerous
local authorities.
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About Fortune Cookie
Digital design agency Fortune Cookie’s
expertise encompasses a wide range of commercial and non-profit
sectors. Clients include Kuoni, Legal & General,
Aqualisa, Arsenal FC, Oxfam International, Amnesty International
and Diabetes UK. Ranked 13th in an industry survey of 395 UK
digital agencies, Fortune Cookie celebrated its 10th anniversary in
2007 when it bought back 100% independence from its investors.
Renowned for delivering return-on-investment to its clients, 11
Fortune Cookie client projects were short-listed for major design
industry awards in 2007.
About Mediasurface
Mediasurface is a global provider of web content management
solutions allowing businesses to easily manage their internet,
intranet and extranet websites. Mediasurface solutions power
sophisticated, content-driven websites ranging from Global 1000
companies to thousands of sites for medium and smaller
businesses. Familiar, easy-to-use interfaces deliver
unrivaled content management and enterprise search
capabilities.
Morello is an enterprise solution that has
changed the face of content management and is used to power
sophisticated intranets, extranets, websites and other digital
channels for Global 1000 companies.
Immediacy is an intuitive
website and intranet management solution for the connected
enterprise that makes it easy for anyone to create and maintain
high quality websites.
Pepperio is a one-stop-shop package for SMEs
exclusively offered by Mediasurface’s network of accredited
Pepperio partners, allowing smaller businesses to easily run
professionally designed websites for a low fixed monthly fee.
Mediasurface operates through wholly owned subsidiaries and
partners across Europe, USA and AsiaPacific. www.mediasurface.com
Except for the historical information
contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release
include forward-looking statements that may involve a number of
risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary significantly
based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, risks
in product and technology development, market acceptance of new
products and continuing product conditions, both here and abroad,
release and sales of new products by strategic resellers and
customers, and other risk factors detailed in the Company's most
recent annual report and other filings with AIM.
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