The Double-Edged Sword of Progress: Digital signatures with DocuSign / reviewed


As technology progresses in leaps and bounds, so to it reverses on its tail in the arena of accessible design. Today a facet of digital security is the subject of inspection. For certainly the standards developed by the world wide web consortium and Microsoft (for all us Windows based users) have incrementally improved to the present day. With the inter-connected web of PC’s around the world, the standards for communication and security are ever more significant. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) has established the protocol for data transmission and authentication in the Microsoft realm. In the arena of user interaction, as provided and enabled by the internet, programmatic design for security must be coupled with user-level interaction to achieve a friendly balance between robustness and usability. In the case of internet websites providing personalized services, the security of personal data in members-only pages has been met Today solutions all over the map are deployed, as bad as the cheep and inaccessible touring code captia and as friendly and accessible as the triple-incripted security models featured by sites like Bank of America.

So here the prelude again returns to the principle point: the review of the DocuSign Inc. service. While the security model DocuSign developed is clearly superior for its inscription of PDF documents requiring the utmost security, like the touring code violators, they fall on their face when it comes to the accessibility of the PDF documents produced. There may be text visible; however this text is locked behind a wall. All that reads by a speech synthesis program is the {blank page} message. So no document created by DocuSign as of this post is readable by blind users, either directly via the website or through the PDF interface.
Maybe one day it will speak again.


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