Have people filed official complaints about this? I think once the complaint is official (instead of tweets) the department is obligated to respond to it.
"The Department recognizes that these documents may not yet be in an accessible format. If you have a disability and the format of any material on the site interferes with your ability to access some information, please email the Department of Justice webmaster. To enable us to respond in a manner that will be of most help to you, please indicate the nature of the accessibility problem, your preferred format (electronic format (ASCII, etc.), standard print, large print, etc.), the web address of the requested material, and your full contact information, so we can reach you if questions arise while fulfilling your request."
I'm not sure what to make of the message. They don't say whether they'll send an ASCII version if you ask for it.
i mean, it's fine they are in a tough spot and can't put up an accessible version right now. but that should maybe be answered in court in a year. and people will go to jail if it's a cover up, or not if it was an honest mistake.
The whole notion of 'i might stab you because i'm not good at knives' isn't really plausible to me. however, i'm totally willing to accept student drivers on the road, because everyone needs to learn _somehow_. Hopefully it's an honest mistake, or incompetence, and not anything sinister.
Honestly, there is no good reason that born-digital content couldn’t get posted in digital/textual form rather than scanned pages.
The secure redactions created by other software would’ve been preserved, too. It’s inexcusable, IMO, to just scan the damn thing.