They strives to expand possibilities for people with vision loss through books, DVD’s, and electronic materials produced by “AFB Press”, “The Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness”, “Access World”, and other publications.
Business Challenge
- High number of individual .Net web components resulting in code duplication
- The existing application was built using ASP and Commerce Server 2000.
- The key issues were lack of master pages, improper styles, 508 compliance, disorderly code and high application maintenance
How Avasoft helped?
- AVASOFT was asked to help in migrating the existing shopping cart site, admin module to the latest technology and to migrate their existing shopping cart database from Commerce Server 2000 to Commerce Server 2009 R2. We followed a phased migration strategy of creating intermediate tables and moving the records from one table to another without any data loss.
Business Gains from Migration
- The navigation components were added to the master page which resulted in consistent look and feel throughout the website.
- The duplicate code was removed and the effort to modify the navigation components reduced as the code is now updated at single place.
- The new website is created in compliance with W3C and Section 503 standards, which will enable the screen reader software to read out the contents from the site to the readers with vision loss.
- Separate libraries were created for all the common component thus enabling complete reusability.
