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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Apr 19, 2019 12:24PM


> Leaving the hot potato politics out of this discussion, the actual Mueller report was officially published by the Department of Justice. It is 448 pages of scanned text, not OCR'd, tagged, or accessible in any way.

I've heard it's a common practice in litigation as well to delivery OCR'd documents without tags to make it more difficult for the other side to search digital information during discovery. So -- seems like a tactic to make it more difficult to find and analyze the data. I could also imagine that there might be some misunderstandings about redaction and PDF tags that could trigger concerns by those releasing redacted content.

Jonathan


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Leaving the hot potato politics out of this discussion, the actual Mueller
report was officially published by the Department of Justice. It is 448
pages of scanned text, not OCR'd, tagged, or accessible in any way.



Question: Is the Department of Justice, the agency that houses the ADA
office, exempt from meeting the Section 508 requirements for accessible
public-facing ICT?



No politics, just your thoughts about who's covered by the law.



You can view DOJ's official published version here:
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf Warning: we do not recommend
this version for those who use text-to-speech A T unless you want to make it
accessible yourself.



But many news outlets have republished the report with live, searchable,
accessible text. The New York Times' version is good, located at
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-do
cument.html



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