W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > w3c-wai-gl@w3.org > April to June 2018

RE: Issue 948 SC 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose - autocomplete technique VS Privacy/Security

From: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 21:52:36 +0000
To: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
CC: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Message-ID: <AM5PR0902MB200293A7F6E185B6C8DBF61AB9660@AM5PR0902MB2002.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>
> a quick check in Chrome (and Vivladi, based on Chromium Blink), and no, they 'automatically' remember the fields.

That might be a saved setting? The support info indicates that it asks before saving:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142893?hl=en-GB&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop


Edge is off by default, but can be turned on:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4027718/windows-autocomplete-web-forms-with-microsoft-edge


For safari it’s part of keychain, which you have to opt-into:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/use-autofill-ibrw1103/mac


So I’m fairly confident with saying it is an opt-in feature.

Cheers,

-Alastair

> Firefox doesn't unless told so (that I can tell), and you can certainly turn off this feature in Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/control-whether-firefox-automatically-fills-forms

Received on Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:53:08 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thursday, 24 March 2022 21:08:26 UTC