Re: ACTION-2080: Draft aria spec text limiting the use of role password on editable objects

What is the use case for having a read only password?  

Rich

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> On Jun 7, 2016, at 5:40 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> Proposed text:
> 
> Authors SHOULD limit the use of the password role to single-line
> elements which are editable. Authors MAY use the password role on
> elements which are not currently editable due to application-specific
> conditions. However, in that instance, authors MUST indicate that the
> element is read only by setting aria-readonly to true or using the
> appropriate native host language attribute. User agents MUST ignore the
> password role when it is applied to elements which are neither editable
> nor explicitly marked as read only.
> 
> * https://github.com/w3c/aria/commit/fe849c8c
> * https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/action-2080/aria/aria.html#password
> 
> --joanie
> 
> 

Received on Wednesday, 8 June 2016 20:58:07 UTC