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Re: Password Rules - Impact on Users with Cognitive Disabilities

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 29, 2014 9:26AM

> The best that gives me is how many characters I've typed actually made it to the screen, nothing more. (I'm not blind.)

I've even seen some password fields that obfuscate the number of characters entered by seemingly multiplying/randomizing the number of stars in the field so you might not even be able to tell how many characters were entered.

Jon