Button to show password field when creating acct/logging in
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Somewhat standard affordance, would be nice to have here.
Right, this is a good point as well. Not that PWC (paperwithcode) needs to be the gold standard, but the way in which they appear to have their login/registration is without the "show password field".
Login page:
Register page:
Definitely could go either way on whether we decide to include a "show password" checkbox or not. I guess since I'm on the fence, are there any particularly strong feelings towards including vs. not including? @crazy4pi314 @WrathfulSpatula
Its def a nice to have, not critical at all. I just wanted to keep a note on this, as it is something I sometimes use when I copy the wrong thing/havent copied from the password manager yet.
Believe it or not, NIST now supports Sarah's suggestion as best practice:
(It might not have, in 2000, but standards change.) Even as an accessibility feature, NIST argues that it actually increases the likelihood of a user choosing a longer or more complex password, ultimately improving security.
I think that basically obviates any need to debate.
(I might have been slightly surprised as well, @vprusso.)
(@crazy4pi314, completely tangential, but this also actually led me to catch an unrelated bug in our checkbox form field components, just now, as a result of trying to implement this. The bug is subtle, and we probably otherwise would have completely missed this, rendering the to-be-renamed "Is Higher Better?" checkbox completely ignored, so thank you for that, too!)