Re: 7 Day Call for Consensus March 17, 2016 ARIA Working Group Resolutions

I would argue that when it comes to security and privacy, that SHOULD is
not enough: it needs to be a MUST (at least from my vantage point).

That said, if we can get a commitment from the SR vendors, then it might be
enough of a solution.

JF
On Mar 29, 2016 3:06 PM, "Rich Schwerdtfeger" <richschwer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Having built screen readers myself there are things that the screen reader
> could do to compare the text being echoed to the text in the input field.
> If it were a password field and the text was not obscured then a screen
> reader should let the user know they have a problem. It is very easy to
> read the input field text and compare the results against what is being
> typed.
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> We have not done this before but this is a good place where we could put a
> screen reader SHOULD …
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> Rich
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> On Mar 29, 2016, at 12:56 PM, White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org> wrote:
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> From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina@rednote.net <janina@rednote.net>]
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> I think the main concern is to avoid surprises from the technology, the
> case where echo shows on screen, but not via the AT.
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> I agree. I think echo should generally be suppressed by screen readers in
> this case, but the characters spoken as one navigates on a touch screen
> around a virtual keyboard aren't echo in my view.
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> I think the spec should provide advice to implementors on these points,
> but I'm not sure whether it should be normative. Security considerations
> are of course important.
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