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

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Apr 19, 2019 4:46PM

I hate to bring up the dreaded "R"" word (redaction) but are the ISO committees working with AT developers to ensure that when PDF - 2 and PDF/UA - 2 are adopted as part of legislation, that those of us who use adaptive technology can benefit from the plethora of attributes, metadata and so forth?

It is difficult to support and advocate for something when the "standards" say "you have access to this" and the reality is that we don't.

In terms of redactions, we need to know how much has been redacted...visually you can tell if it is a word or two, part of a line, a line, part of a paragraph, paragraphs, pages...in order to understand what we are reading, we need to know exactly what is available visually so that we don't start troubleshooting our technology, thinking it is skipping over things.

Are the PDF/PDF/UA committees working with the government and legal community to support tagged PDF with redactions? To help them understand the security and the need?

Cheers, Karen