Re: ACTION-372: Proposed replacement for 7.6

On 2008-01-17 10:20:21 -0800, Ian Fette wrote:

> One who shall not be named? That sounds too much like something out of a
> fantasy novel. "Don't speak Sarumon's name out loud, or you will draw his
> attention!" And we're not trying to prevent the string from having a name
> (as you just said that the user can assign an alias to the string), we're
> preventing the text from being displayed and/or read aloud.
> -My $0.02

Thanks for passing the attention test. :)

> > I propose to replace section 7.6 [1] by the following text, to
> > address ISSUE-125:
> >
> >        Some text strings are of sufficiently high value that the
> >        risk of onlookers or bystanders evesdropping on the
> >        communication between machine and user is deemed
> >        unacceptable, e.g., in the case of a password displayed on a
> >        screen or read aloud by a screen reading tool.
> >
> >        The text entry tool history menu MUST provide a means for
> >        the user to mark a text string as one who shall not be
> >        named.  Invoking this function MUST enable the user to

... to mark a text string as sensitive.

> >        assign an alias to this string, which can then be used in
> >        subsequent interactions with the safe form editor.
> >
> > 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/wsc-xit/#safebar-onscreenmask
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>
> >
> >

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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>