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Re: [EXTERNAL] How fast do puff and sip device users type?

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From: John Foliot
Date: Jul 3, 2019 11:41AM

Hi Birkir,

You initially posed this question in relationship to content input via sip
and puff. While I am unaware of any specific studies around minimal times
needed, the problem statement impacts more than just that specific
user-group or specific input type (i.e. a user with a mouth-stick will
likely need a similar amount of time to react).

Some questions: does the masking impact the whole text string, or just the
most recent character inputted? In a perfect world, I'd envision a masking
where the last letter/character typed is visible, and as soon as you input
a second (or next) character, than the previous character is auto-magically
masked. However, you also noted that this is a server-side function that is
not detecting key-strokes, so...)

As for "how long"? I'd (personally, and with no hard metric to base this
on) likely suggest roughly 2 seconds per character, so an 8 character
string would be roughly 15 or 16 seconds. You noted as well that they can
"unmask" the password (during, or only after?), and if possible I'd also
provide a check-box function that automatically turns off or "shows" the
password in plain text for the duration - I've seen this more than once in
the wild. That's a user choice setting that can (would) default to the
traditional hidden password string, but still gives the end user the final
decision.

My $0.05 Cdn.

JF

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 12:17 PM Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Lol, not when there are other considerations, such as security, and
> ths is an online banking platform, our security folks would get me
> trownin jail if I proposed that.
>
>
>
> On 7/3/19, Mark Magennis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > The exception period under SC2.2.1 is 20 hours 😊
> >
> > Mark Magennis
> > Skillsoft | mobile: +353 87 60 60 162
> > Accessibility Specialist
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> > Birkir R. Gunnarsson
> > Sent: 03 July 2019 15:51
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [WebAIM] How fast do puff and sip device users type?
> >
> > 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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> > Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
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> > > > >


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*​John Foliot* | Principal Accessibility Strategist | W3C AC Representative
Deque Systems - Accessibility for Good
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