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Storing or managing passwords is a problem for many people with disabilities; But that reality is about to change.
If you don’t use the same easy passwords for different services, you probably know someone who does. We should create strong and different passwords, with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. But this is not an easy task for many people. Fortunately, a world without passwords is upon us and will bring accessibility benefits.
We are encouraged to create at least one username and password for many websites and apps. I don’t even know how many accounts I’ve created on the internet anymore.
It’s not hard to imagine that not everyone remembers their credentials or is careful to keep them in a secure place, like a password manager, that acts as a digital vault.
Certain audiences are even more affected, such as people with low digital literacy, those with cognitive and learning disabilities, and the elderly. Memorizing a sequence of characters can be an extremely complicated task for them.
The most common solutions to remember passwords they are not safe and practical. According to the W3C consortium, which sets standards for the Internet, alternatives include:
• Look or listen to the password repeatedly to copy or type it into a form field.
• Reuse a single password or use a password that is easy to remember.
• Store passwords insecurely, such as on pieces of paper.
The truth is that there are already alternative methods to passwords. Some services send codes by email or message. Others let you use your fingerprint or face.
The big problem is that most forms of security require you to create a password. But not for long, as an initiative by the Online Rapid Identity Alliance (FIDO) and the W3C consortium is already being implemented to eliminate passwords.
Basically, all you need is a device, such as a computer and a mobile phone, to access your account. It is he who will unlock access. You can use, for example, facial recognition or fingerprint. The system then creates a unique access key (passkey) for each website or application with which you have an account and saves this key securely.
The password in this case becomes invisible, since there is no need to remember or save it anywhere. Google, Apple and Microsoft have already started implementing the novelty.
Recently, password manager 1password also announced support for passkeys. Users will be able to choose if they want to unlock their account without using traditional passwords.
Apps, websites, and services now need to add this method for logging into an account. A password-free future is not only practical and convenient for everyone. It is also a way of giving autonomy, independence and accessibility to people with and without disabilities.
Source: Terra
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