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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 12, 2021 3:53AM

I've had to sign a lot of digital forms recently and I have been
pleasantly surprised by the Docusign approach.
1. It does not require creating a loginor anything, just filling in
what you want your signature to look like (after cicking a special
URL)
2. The PDF document is displayed in a browser, you can scroll
it/explore it using a screen reader (if the document is properly tag
it works, at least in Chrome)
3. At the end of each page (or document) there is a "sign" button, all
you have to do is click it.

When done the PDF window closes and you're taken back to the landing
page with buttons to print/save.
Of course this only addresses one situation, where a form is already
filled in and all you have to do is to activate a signature button,
but for me this is still a gigantic leap from the days of
printing//signing/scanning that I have gotten used to (with sighted
assistance).
I'd rather be able to view these on my mobile device and use a
fingerprint to sign, but at least I'm seeing progress.


On 9/17/21, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Yesterday, David and I were discussing why so many forms are published as
> PDFs rather than web pages, and the difficulty in fixing this for both the
> huge number of existing forms as well as all the new ones.
>
> Today, the Ministry of Justice published a very good blog on how they have
> begun to address this issue. Since this is just one small government
> department, it gives you an idea of the scale of the issue across the whole
> of the public sector.
>
> The MOJ have a roadmap, but you can see that it will take years to
> implement, just for forms, let alone all the other content that is published
> as PDF. The good news is that we're going to be doing document remediation
> for a long time!
>
> Steve
>
>
> From: GOV.UK blogs < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: 17 September 2021 11:12
> To: Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Creating a digital approach to paper forms
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> A new post, "Creating a digital approach to paper forms" has just been
> published on the MOJ Digital & Technology blog. In the age of digital first,
> the use of paper forms is a problem. These forms are often designed to be
> printed out and filled in by h…
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> A new post, "Creating a digital approach to paper forms" has just been
> published on the MOJ Digital & Technology blog.
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> In the age of digital first, the use of paper forms is a problem. These
> forms are often designed to be printed out and filled in by hand, not
> completed on a screen. When we make them available on GOV.​UK …
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> Read the new post:
> https://mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2021/09/17/creating-a-digital-approach-to-paper-forms/
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