Accessibility is for Namirial an important aspect of inclusion in the whole process from defining an envelope, sending the envelope to the signer and signing a document. All new features are evaluated for meeting minimum accessibility criteria, while existing functionality which was developed over a longer period is adopted to meet current requirements.
In some countries of the world, accessibility is already enforced by law in general or for use in specific business. With the "EU Accessibility Law" (official title: "Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services") it is expected that many of those requirements are also formally adopted to national law in the countries of European Union within the next years.
This document focuses on following components of the "eSignAnyWhere Platform":
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- Product features where security or legal requirements contraindicate alternative implementation
- e.g. for the signer, a flat picture rendering of the original contract is shown in the SignAnyWhere Viewer. The flat picture represents a rendering of the original contract uploaded by the sender as it was provided. Even if the document does not fulfill color contrast requirements, or is using very small font sizes, it is displayed as it was defined/provided by the sender.
- Some settings in the product configuration
- Graphical editors such as the editor for Team Configuration are not providing keyboard-only functionality.
- Interactive What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) designer
- The functionality to place form fields and signature fields is not offering keyboard-only functionality.
For the designer, we suggest to prepare the document in a word processing application that meets accessibility requirements and export it as PDF. Form fields and signature fields can be inserted and assigned to a recipient as text elements using the "Advanced Document Tags" syntax.
Another option is to work with prepared templates where all interactive fields have been placed in the template already. The PDF document can be exchanged when using a template, even after placing interactive fields in the template.
- The functionality to place form fields and signature fields is not offering keyboard-only functionality.