Neat, but he doesn't address color-blind users. Maybe showing small pictures or symbols would address the needs of these users (I know there's already a few sites that use something like that where you have to either choose the picture that you chose as your password or check the associated image once you login with a text pwd). Does anyone else have ideas on how to make that accessible for color-blind users?
Thanks, Courtney -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Yohan Creemers Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 5:09 AM To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Password Masking and Chroma-Hash An experiment from Mattt Thompson in how to visualize the input of masked password fields: http://mattt.github.com/Chroma-Hash/ Some explanation taken from his blog: Chroma-Hash displays an ambient color representation of the input as it is being typed. Use Case 1: Login Check If your password normally is represented as "red, purple, orange", and after you've finished typing you see "pink, green, grey", you'll know you mistyped it somewhere along the way. This avoids a potentially long wait for the server to respond with a "failed login" notice. Use Case 2: Password Confirmation When you sign up for a web service, you often have to type your password twice to make sure that you entered what you wanted correctly. As in the demo, a user will be able to confirm that two fields are the same visually. There are, of course, many alternatives for live-input validation of password confirmation, but this is another viable use case for Chroma-Hash. http://mattt.me/2009/07/chroma-hash-a-belated-introduction/ See also a recent discussion about password masking http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=43168 - Yohan ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
