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Re: Password Rules - Impact on Users with CognitiveDisabilities

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From: Pooja.Nahata@cognizant.com
Date: Oct 29, 2014 9:55AM

John,

The original question that I put up was on the aspect of the password rules and its impact on WCAG compliance. What I understand so far from the discussions is that it's the implementation of the password rules that will impact WCAG and not the rules themselves.

Regards
Pooja Nahata



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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Password Rules - Impact on Users with Cognitive Disabilities

2014-10-29 16:34 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> > I think password hiding is important, so passwords should be hidden
> > by
> default.
>
> I agree. On mobile devices and especially in public situations where
> a person who is blind might have their password stolen it is very
> important to have the password hidden by default.
>

Assuming that they are using headphones .... otherwise he or she is hiding nothing anyway.

This is an interesting discussion.

It would be good to know what the statistics were on password renewals.
What percentage of passwords are renewed, and with what frequency ,by mail
authentification. How many passwords do people really remember? Surely
we remember the ones that have sense for us (and these can be composed and changed regularly).

When the initial question was asked about cognitive disabilities and passwords,was it more about about long-term retention of many unique passwords, or simply the complexity of any one set of password rules?
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