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

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Apr 19, 2019 12:33PM

> 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.

That's all true; it's a (lamentably) common practice in litigation.

However in this case it's clearly DoJ's job to know about those matters… and to know that there's no problem or concern with redacting tagged PDF. Redacted is redacted.

Sadly, we've yet to see developers supporting the new features in PDF 2.0 that explicitly enable accessible redaction… but if people do as the DoJ did - trash their PDFs by rendering them as images - then tags are kind of irrelevant.

Duff.