Glossary
Legible
The property of a record being readable and unambiguous, so that it can be understood and used throughout the retention period.
Source · PIC/S PI 041-1 (2021), §7.4 ALCOA principles
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Legibility means more than that the characters can be seen: units, context, and the content before and after a correction must be clear, and it must stay readable for a long time. Inspections cite faded thermal paper, overwriting, truncated scans, non-standard abbreviations, and legacy files that can no longer be opened. Look at the original records, how corrections are made, verification of scans and true copies, the retention media, and periodic readability testing.
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