Suwanee, November 30, 2020 - DocPath, leader in innovative document software solutions, announces that both its DocPath® Designer v.6 design tool and its powerful DocPath® DocGeneration Engine v6 generation engine allow their customers now to comply with the Payment Services following the Order ECE 1263/2019 that took effect on July 1, 2020, from now on accessible PDF documents can be generated.
This order on accessibility in PDF documents demands that documents from financial institutions made available to their customers should be compatible with the applications that allow reading these kinds of documents. In order for the visually impaired customers to have full access to this information, PDFs need to be accessible.
The main accessibility aspects covered in PDF documents are oriented towards the Blind & Visually Impaired (OBVI). Nevertheless, there are other disability types besides the Visually impaired, such as: motor, auditory, cognitive, low vision, etc., which should also be taken into account when accessible PDF documents are being created. The recommendations to make PDF documents accessible are similar to those given for accessible web pages (HTML).
How to comply with this new Order, ECE 1263/2019, for Payment Services effective since July 1, 2020 (accessible PDF documents)
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) W3C were taken as starting point.
These documents must contain computer generated texts.
There are two different types of PDF documents available:
Scanned documents with images require an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process to convert images into text.
Text files created directly by word processors or design programs such as DocPath® Designer v.6. These documents are likely to be accessible.
The document must be a tagged PDF.
A tagged PDF document is a PDF version that includes the content of the document and the according information about its logical structure and reading order, so the document can be read correctly by screen readers.
The fact that a PDF document is correctly labelled does not guarantee its accessibility, as the obtained documents will be as accessible as the original documents on which they are based. If the source document contains images for which no alternative texts have been provided, then they will not be included within the resulting PDF document and they will therefore be inaccessible.
Logical reading order
Clear directions to determine the reading order of the text should be provided in order for a screen reader to efficiently read the information of a page. The reading order of a document may not be clear when working with columns, tables, etc., in order to specify the logical reading order, tagged PDF documents that identify the different blocks and elements of the text which make a structure of the document should be used, such as titles, chapters or headers.
Alternative text for images
In order to provide the user with the information about the image, a descriptive text that can be read (alternative text) should be provided.
Document language
Documents can be read in different ways depending on the language that has been used (different pronunciation, accent, intonation, etc.). Therefore, in order to make the document accessible, it is advisable to specify the language in which the document is written.
Links
The document should contain well-defined and useful links to guide them easily to other parts within the document, so users will be guided directly to the section of their interest.
Navigation
Navigation and organization tools are required to make a PDF document accessible, such as table of contents, bookmarks or headers, this helps the user to find what they are looking for, they will easily navigate through the entire document without the need to read the whole content.
Color contrast
An adequate contrast between the text and the background is an important topic as well to facilitate reading for visually impaired customers.
DocPath has made a significant effort to generate accessible PDF documents by using a simple, clear and efficient process to allow compliance with the Payment Services of Order ECE 1263/2019, effective since July 1, 2020
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About DocPath
DocPath is a leading document software manufacturer that provides its worldwide customers with the technology that allows them to implement sophisticated Customer Communication and Document Output Management processes. Created in 1993, DocPath´s solutions have been implemented in companies all over the world. Among its international clients are prestigious banks and first-class corporations, which are aided by DocPath solutions by simplifying the complicated and critical tasks involving the design and distribution of business and customer documents. DocPath maintains a strong commitment to R&D&i, an area that receives a good amount of its revenue, and in which lies the key to the company´s success.
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DocPath, a leading, multinational company specialized in the development of advanced document software and Customer Communications Management solutions, analyzes and solves the most important customer communication problems of large and medium-sized companies from two different perspectives, and with their own particular needs.
Large and complex networks
All companies, regardless of their size, need to properly manage communications with their customers, especially companies with large office networks encounter more problems and, therefore, their needs are much more complex.
DocPath’s, document software products and customizable Customer Communications Management platforms also allow a seamless integration into legacy systems that are almost impossible to replace. The solution also allows for controlling critical tasks, such as high-speed online transaction processing. In addition, its high availability meets the requirements for executing large numbers of processing requests, allowing it to cope with peak demands that could cause very serious system problems.
To satisfy all these needs, DocPath’s document software is designed to be fully scalable. The number of offices is no longer that relevant. DocPath uses advanced technologies such as 'containers' and 'kubernetes' to fully adapt to their customer’s needs. These innovative document technologies allow DocPath to offer complete connectivity, even with critical legacy business applications on large communications networks.
DocPath’s responsiveness is the result of extensive experience in supporting big and complex networks and all those years of working with prestigious companies and enterprises that have already overcome all of these challenges.
Large volume and complex business document production
Regardless of the office network size, the volume of document production and its complexity determine the new requirements that any company must satisfy.
If this document volume or its complexity is high, then it is essential to deal with document production in a flexible and streamlined way.
Another factor that is important as well, is the new paradigm of omnichannel document distribution, which is a serious challenge without an advanced design and processing application that allows high flexibility and extensive capacity to create and distribute these documents.
Dealing with complex requirements for all kind of communication types, scheduling production according to different parameters, such as time scheduling or the availability of resources is essential for the correct balance between production and costs.
Speed, when designing and generating documents, is very important as well, as a system that runs “eternally” when creating relatively simple documents is useless.
DocPath’s document software has a modular, high-speed and powerful system to design, generate and distribute business documents. This fact allows DocPath to offer full flexibility in the configuration of its customer’s document production environments.
This powerful design platform, with advanced graphic composition logic (without the need for programming), allows users of DocPath’s document software to easily design the most complicated business document.
Besides, DocPath’s document software solutions offer the ability to produce document outputs optimized for the chosen communication channel (paper, web, audio, video, etc.), and can use the most suitable channel or channels, depending on the needs in each occasion, without having to redesign the customer communications, thus offering greater flexibility and improving the companies service.
In conclusion, DocPath’s broad experience with large and complex projects allows them to offer a modern, agile, flexible, and completely modular document software solution, valid for both large & complex networks and large volumes of highly complex document creation and document output processes.
Its high integration capacity prevents large developments or complex application modifications and by generating omnichannel outputs the document software solution offers an unprecedented response capacity in communications with clients, the future of CCM (Custom Communication Management) is already part of the present in DocPath.
About DocPath
DocPath is a leading document software manufacturer that provides its worldwide customers with the technology that allows them to implement sophisticated Customer Communication and Document Output Management processes. Created in 1993, DocPath´s document solutions have been implemented in companies all over the world. Among its international clients are prestigious banks and first-class corporations, which are aided by DocPath solutions by simplifying the complicated and critical tasks involving the design and distribution of business and customer documents. DocPath maintains a strong commitment to R&D&i, an area that receives a good amount of its revenue, and in which lies the key to the company´s success.
Disclaimer:
DocPath is a DocPath Corp. registered trademark. All rights reserved. Other mentioned trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.
