Accessibility transaction

Hi Cindy,

Before you start to design the transaction, you need to prepare a tagged PDF and use position extraction to match Adobe Fields with OneSpan Sign fields, it's a mandatory way to add fields.

Unlike to design a non-ada PDF, you need to use specific Adobe Fields to match with particular fields - Adobe Signature represents signature field, Adobe Text Box represents input field, and Adobe Radio Button represents radio field.

Here's a guide for creating an ADA PDF.

I also have a blog introducing how to use sender UI to design an ADA package. (I've attached the PDF I used in the blog)

Duo

Duo,

for the sample ADA form you attached, for the signature form field, if I want to use API call to create ADA transaction, what signer information should I put? how does OneSpan know this is signature field or something else? 

thanks,

Cindy

Hi Cindy,

As below screenshot resembles,

(1)approval ID, approval Name, signature field ID, signature field Name better to be the same as the property name of Adobe Signature ("SIGNATURE1" in my example)

(2)for other fields, field ID and Name need to be the same as the corresponding property name of the Adobe Fields ("DATE1" and "NAME1")

I've also attached the completed JSON to create an ADA package with my sample PDF.

Duo

Duo,

do you have the sample tagged PDF used in this post? the reason is I want to get some tagged text as well. 

https://community.onespan.com/documentation/onespan-sign/guides/admin-guides/user/creating-accessible-pdf

thanks,

Cindy 

Hi Duo,

I saw your blog (https://www.onespan.com/blog/onespan-sign-release-1124-upload-accessible-document-sender-ui) and it says 11.24, does it mean our on-prem v11.25 already have the same feature as well? and only available in new sender UI not classic one?

thanks,

Cindy

Hi Duo,

Hope you are doing well! 

I still have question about the accessibility testing. I created non-accessibility transaction (ada=false) with the attached form. when I go through the signing process with screen reader, it seems everything can be read such as menu, button, document self and signature field etc without turn on "enable accessibility". 

I tested the following scenario:

1) ADA = false, non-tag form (attachment): without "enable accessibility", everything can be read include menu, document self and signature field etc

2) ADA = true, non-tag form (attachment): without "enable accessibility", everything can be read include menu, document self and signature field etc

3) ADA = true, non-tag form (attachment): with "enable accessibility", everything can be read include menu, document self except signature field as it re-format the way as screen reader can read

4) ADA = true, tagged form (the one you used in the blog): with "enable accessibility", everything can be read include menu, document self and signature field etc

To me, it seems scenario #1/#2 and #4 are same, why we need to use tagged form for accessibility ?

thanks,

Cindy

Hi Cindy,

I am doing well, thanks for asking!

It's documented in the "Creating an Accessible PDF" guide that:
The concept of a "tagged PDF" is central to OneSpan Sign's accessibility solution, since only tagged PDF elements are included in its WCAG HTML representation. Thus all elements intended for accessible content and signing must be tagged (including Signature Fields and those "automatic fields" whose content is triggered by signing).

Duo

Hi Duo,

from my scenario(non-tagged PDF with non-ADA transaction), the screen reader still can read for signing ceremony process such as buttons, document, and signature field inside of the document etc. then what's the difference between non-tagged PDF with non-ADA transaction vs tagged PDF with ADA transaction. 

As I tested, from sender UI,  you have to have tagged form to create ADA transaction. 

thanks,

Cindy

Hi Cindy,

Although I am not an expert in ADA area, but from the best of my understanding, even though some modern PDF viewers are able to recognize the text in a PDF, still it splits the word wrongly sometimes (see below screenshot), versus the ADA transaction where the PDF reader reads the text directly from the tags 

Duo

thanks Duo for the information.