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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 3, 2019 8:51AM

We hav a functionality that lets users see the password they are typing.
For security reasons we automatically mask the password again after a
period of inactivity (the masking is done from the server side so we
cannotdetect individual keystrokes).
The question is, how long should we give a user to type the password
before we auto mask it again (password has to be at least 8 characters
long and must have at least one uppercase, one lower case and one
non-alphanumeric character).

Finally, users can request to re display the password if masking is activated.

This is definitely a luxury problem compared to most accessibility
inquiries, but it's always fun to get questions that you don't
necessarily hav ready answers for.

Cheers
-B


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