Category: Press Releases

Accessibility programs move faster when teams work from a clean, trusted inventory of digital properties. This whitepaper lays out a practical approach to data preparation and governance so your scanning results are accurate, actionable, and easy to report.

The focus is on building a repeatable crawl strategy, applying layered rules before scanning, and producing structured datasets that support prioritization, remediation tracking, and ongoing monitoring.

You’ll Learn How iAccessible

• Establishes an accurate digital inventory and baseline to reduce manual effort
• Customizes automated crawls with layered rules before running accessibility and web health checks
• Uses multi-threaded, two-phase crawls with timed pacing to support enterprise performance and whitelist approvals
• Generate high-accuracy, actionable datasets that power role-based dashboards and email alerts

Why this matters

Teams are often asked to show progress quickly. Strong data preparation improves crawl coverage, reduces false positives, and helps you produce audit-ready reporting that supports remediation planning.

iAccessible is a Revelo Software product, powered by WebAIM WAVE for WCAG detection, with automated scanning and embedded manual review workflows. Optimal Solutions Group is an authorized reseller of iAccessible and other Revelo Software products.

Download the Whitepaper: Data Preparation and Governance – Keys to Efficiently Reach Accessibility Goals

This whitepaper explores the challenges faced by federal agencies in managing peer reviewers across competitive grant programs. Agencies like the Department of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education rely on qualified reviewers to evaluate applications, yet many still use fragmented, siloed processes. These methods lead to operational inefficiencies, including delayed recruitment, reviewer fatigue, and lack of capacity forecasting.

The Challenge

Despite the central role of peer reviews in grant programs, agencies often struggle with:

• Fragmented reviewer pools across different units
• Insufficient capacity planning, leading to last-minute recruitment
• Reviewer fatigue due to overuse of a small pool of reviewers

eReviewer: A Comprehensive Solution

eReviewer modernizes peer reviewer management by integrating multiple federal agencies into a single, predictive system.

Key features include:

• Structured Reviewer Profiles for accurate, automated matching based on expertise and availability
• Configurable Eligibility Thresholds that ensure compliance with program-specific requirements
• Predictive Analytics for proactive workforce planning and shortfall detection
• Profile-Driven Recruitment to ensure the right mix of expertise for each review cycle

Strategic Value and Impact

By shifting from reactive to proactive management, eReviewer enables:

• 85% reduction in lead time for addressing capacity shortfalls
• 40% increase in operational efficiency via cross-program reviewer sharing
• 95% improvement in compliance through automated tracking
• 60% better review quality due to evidence-based reviewer matching

Conclusion

As federal agencies modernize their grant management systems, eReviewer offers a robust, scalable solution that transforms peer reviewer management into a strategic advantage. This platform not only improves efficiency and compliance but also strengthens the integrity of federal grant-making processes.

Download the whitepaper to read more.

Optimal’s Revelo Software has joined the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP) as a Vendor Affiliate Member and participant in CCAP’s Technology Partnership Program.

As part of this new partnership, Revelo Software collaborated with CCAP leadership to deliver a technology webinar on February 3, 2026, focused on upcoming U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Title II digital accessibility compliance deadlines. The webinar was designed to help Pennsylvania counties understand evolving accessibility requirements and prepare practical, scalable responses.

During the session, Revelo’s team shared best practices for improving digital accessibility, including the importance of data preparation and document categorization, proactive accessibility training, and advances in AI-driven document remediation technologies. The discussion highlighted how counties can reduce compliance risk while improving digital access for all residents.

The webinar was jointly conducted by Revelo Software and Optimal Solutions Group, a Pennsylvania-based technology firm that holds two Commonwealth of Pennsylvania IT Services contracts. Together, the organizations bring deep experience supporting public sector agencies with accessibility, data modernization, and compliance-driven technology solutions.

Optimal is an authorized reseller of Revelo Software and Revelo Software products.

About Revelo Software

Revelo Software provides Pennsylvania counties and public sector agencies with technology solutions that support digital accessibility compliance, data-driven decision-making, and operational efficiency. Through its accessibility platforms, iAccessible and e-508, Revelo helps counties prepare for and meet DOJ Title II and Section 508 requirements. The company also delivers economic impact analysis services and agentic AI solutions, including eReviewer and OptiBot, to help governments evaluate programs, modernize workflows, and maximize the impact of public investments.

Author: Mark Turner, PhD | President, Optimal Solutions Group | Co-Founder, Revelo Software

Economic impact studies of festivals and events are often expected to answer a deceptively simple question: What changed because of the event? In practice, many studies report large economic figures based on gross spending and multipliers, without clearly separating activity that truly occurred because of the event from activity that would have happened anyway.

This white paper examines why attribution, isolating net, incremental economic effects, remains one of the most difficult and misunderstood aspects of event-sector economic impact analysis. Drawing on academic research and applied case examples, it explains where common approaches break down and how analysts can strengthen causal claims within real-world data constraints.

What you’ll learn

• Why gross spending and multiplier-based estimates often overstate “impact”
• The difference between economic activity, economic contribution, and attributed impact
• How bundled trip purpose, substitution, displacement, and leakage distort results
• Why festivals and events pose unique attribution challenges compared to other policy domains
• Practical attribution strategies that improve credibility, even without experimental designs

Download the Whitepaper “Completion, Earnings, and Debt as Strategic Imperatives for Community Colleges”

Download the Whitepaper “Completion, Earnings, and Debt as Strategic Imperatives for Community Colleges”

Optimal has released a new white paper, Resilient Assistance: Using Agentic AI to Empower Small Businesses Amid Resource Partner Cuts. The paper examines how intelligent AI-driven assistants can fill critical gaps in technical assistance as the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) faces proposed workforce reductions of approximately 43% and the elimination of funding for key entrepreneurial development programs, including Women’s Business Centers (WBCs), SCORE, the State Trade Expansion Program (STEP), and Veterans Business Outreach Centers (VBOCs).

Drawing on decades of evaluating SBA programs, Optimal outlines how Agentic AI can provide 24/7, personalized, and cost-effective guidance to small businesses navigating complex regulations and government contracting opportunities. The paper emphasizes that AI solutions align with federal priorities such as Executive Order 14058 on customer experience and the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) announced in 2025.

Key recommendations include:

• Launching targeted AI pilots in underserved and rural communities
• Integrating AI into SBA’s modernization initiatives, such as MySBA platforms
• Building partnerships to ensure accuracy and quality of AI-delivered information
• Leveraging innovation programs like SBIR/STTR to accelerate public-facing AI tools

Download the full white paper, Resilient Assistance: Using Agentic AI to Empower Small Businesses Amid Resource Partner Cuts.

Optimal and Revelo Software are excited to announce Maryland’s dual investment in Revelo Software.

“Our team has built an ecosystem of low code and modular Revelo products that address many end-to-end digital transformation needs. Enterprise Revelo reduces the types of skills and resources needed to quickly stand up and integrate new applications. Revelo has configurable workflows and reduces technical debts in areas of security, accessibility and monitoring controls,” said Tracye Turner, founder of Revelo. “With the surge in interest in AI, e-government, CX, and real-time decision systems, Revelo can help governments and organizations get up to speed quickly!”

To learn more, click the link to read TEDCO’s announcement.: https://www.tedcomd.com/news-events/press-releases/2024/tedco-invests-revelo