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Re: Wait, wait...who has to abide by Sec. 508?

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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