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Re: CFC - Accessible Authentication and issue responses

From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 11:57:15 +0000
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Message-ID: <1c1e5359-398a-d40e-79fe-60dd8a72462b@splintered.co.uk>
On 23/12/2017 11:13, Michael Pluke wrote:
> -1
> The more I look at this the less I understand it!
> 
> It appears to pretty much debar all authentication processes that 
> involve user information entry - as whatever they enter either has to be 
> retrieved from the user’s memory or copied (tanscribed) from somewhere. 
> Also I do not see how an authenticaton process can rely on every 
> unspecified user agent being able to enter a user’s personal information 
> (at present, surely, public terminals will certainly not have access to 
> stored user intormation)?

In my reading I assumed this would fall under "governing statutory 
requirements" that would except things like public/shared 
machines/terminals. However, until "governing statutory requirements" is 
defined somewhere properly, this is probably tea-leaves-reading on my part.

Agree that, at present, the wording is ambiguous. I may change my vote 
to a -1 if it's not too late, as Michael's point is quite an important one.

P
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