- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:15:27 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 18/01/2024 18:58, Jerra Strong wrote: > I'm still interested while reading through the replies if there is > consensus that a form which cannot be digitally filled out or signed (i.e. > requiring printing of the form) is a legal compliance risk or issue due to > accessibility concerns. I'd suggest that if you force people to physically sign, when that is physically impracticable, they will end up with satisfying your requirement, to them, which defeats the value of the signature as something that can be compared against a specimen, as they may well resort to tools to merge an image, before printing. Incidentally, in CJK environments, stamps (chops) were traditionally used to sign documents, and, I believe, in the UK companies can still sign, by impressing a relief seal into the paper. Also, when my father was signing cheques for a large public sector organisation, he used a two colour stamp of his signature. UK banks, at least seem to accept passwords, and callbacks with code numbers, and one time code generators, as authenticators, and then accept a simply form button press as the confirmation of the transaction. It seems to me that ink and paper signatures are an obsolescent technology, with limited geographic applicability. In terms of legislation compliance, I believe the UK requirement is to provide an equivalent service to the standard online one, not to make the standard online one work for everyone.
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