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

I also have to ask why the multi-line restriction. If I choose to wrap a 
field which may contain a passphrase why would this be an issue?


On 6/8/2016 1:57 PM, Rich Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> What is the use case for having a read only password?
>
> Rich
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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
>>
>>

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