1.3.4 Identify Common Purpose: Security and Privacy

[shawnthompson]

What about security issues with autocompleting form fields that are hidden on a webpage?

The article, Your browser might be filling in hidden fields and giving away your secrets talks about this topic.

[alastc]

I'd note this is essentially the same issue discussed in #590 which has an official repsonse.

[shawnthompson]

Thank you very much. As a person with a cognitive disability, memory problem due to a TBI, I hate that I have to lower my level of security on the internet to help me with remember stuff like passwords, especially security question (I hate those). After I heard about the hidden fields I only use autocomplete on non-trusted sites.

[alastc]

Thanks Shawn, I think it is something the browsers are working on, hopefully not something we need to tackle.