- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:56:44 +0930
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi All I would be interested to hear peoples thoughts on the following two methods of protecting pages: 1) HTTP Basic Authentication For me, this is the easiest type to use when coding an application - Apache (the web server software) looks after everything for me. With graphical user agents, the sign-in appears as a pop-up. Does this not cause a problem with screen readers working with Mozilla/IE/etc. ? The only other flaw that this has, in my mind, is a security one rather than one of accessiblity; as the user agent tends to cache the authentication information, there is no real way to "log out" without closing the user agent. 2) Cookie Authentication This would appear quite friendly from a user perspective, but what if the user agent does not support cookies? It appears to me that neither solution is totally accessible, so what should one do? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Kadina Business Consultancy South Australia
Received on Monday, 26 July 2004 21:26:57 UTC