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Re: Password Rules - Impact on Users with Cognitive Disabilities

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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Oct 29, 2014 8:43AM

" Nielsen has suggested that the hiding of passwords is a UX anti-pattern and so you may possible want to consider not using the type="password", if that's an option. Typing on a keyboard while keeping a bunch of rules straight in your head and then not being able to see what you've typed is really hard, even without cognative disability."

I totally agree that the "password" type should not be used ... it's so ingrained in how we deal with passwords, that the mention of showing a clear text password is almost sacrilegious.

Greg