Re: Special needs students and passwords

[John Ladwig <John.Ladwig () CSU MNSCU EDU>]

I think this will quickly go beyond accessibility policy to needs for technical implementations.

We've gotten a nibble or two on these items, and it looks like some of them may require special-case exceptions to 
password change complexity code, or alternate password-change applications, changes in LOA requirement logic in 
application access control, amongst other things.

I'd purely love to hear real-world examples from anyone who's tried to make progress on the technical side of 
accommodations in re: access control and security systems.

   -jml

> > > Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU> 2010-12-01 12:22 >>>
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:44:21 GMT, Stewart James said:

> How are other institutes handling access for those students:
>
> *         Where reliably entering  passwords is an issue?

Probably best addressed as part of an overall accessibility policy. If they
can't enter passwords, they're probably going to have problems after they get
past the password as we.. You also need to deal with visually handicapped users
and so on - it may be you just need to bite the bullet and accept the fact that
some users can't use the general-use computers in the lab, and have to access
from (probably their own) systems that have specialized accessibility input/
output devices/etc.

> *         Short term memory retention may be an issue?

See above.