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Arranging a virtual call during which participants can ask developers a range of questions is a simple way to begin a relationship. Many digital security trainers and at-risk end users have not met or communicated with a tool developer. In 2018, USABLE connected KeePassXC with Okthanks and AccessibilityLab, for expert consultancy on user engagement and designing for at-risk communities and people with disabilities. Following the session, trainers were much more motivated to gather and send feedback. The developer was able to persuade the trainers that the ‘user personas’ they created, and other forms of feedback, were critical for the tool’s improvement.

The following year, one of the KeePassXC developers took the opportunity to spend time with a group of USABLE’s digital security trainers from the Eastern Europe / Eurasia region, calling into the UX Workshop for an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session.īefore the call, trainers were unconvinced that developers were really interested in feedback, and were skeptical about whether their input would really be considered. This kind of ongoing, expert support would not have been available to KeePassXC outside the project. Not only did the session enable the developers to understand this problem, but several participants offered to test updated versions of the tool, as volunteers. Although KeePassX was translated into Spanish, it didn’t work with the screen reader: either an item was completely inaccessible, or the reader read the Spanish text in English – often with a Spanish accent.

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Participants were able to install the software and carry out basic tasks, but navigation using a screen reader was difficult. The purpose of this was to test the tool’s usability for people with visual impairments.

In 2016, the USABLE Tool Feedback Training in Mexico City held a session on KeePassX (XC’s predecessor), with participants using screen readers. We never heard from people with disabilities, so we weren’t making improvements with them in mind.” “We don’t keep track of who uses KeePassXC. Jonathan, one of the developers, explained that before USABLE, accessibility and usability were not priorities for the team: KeePassXC is a free, open-source tool that allows users to store and retrieve passwords safely and securely, on a range of platforms.

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Obtain view/read access to items in the grantor's Vault ( View).īe prompted to create a new Master Password for the grantor's Vault ( Takeover).Accessibility Lab’s mission is to promote and defend digital rights, so that all people have equal access to information. When the request is approved or the wait time lapses, the public-key-encrypted Master Key is delivered to grantee for decryption with grantee's private key.ĭepending on the specified user access level, the grantee will either: The grantor may manually approve the request at any time, otherwise the request is bound by a grantor-specified wait time.

Grantor is notified of request via email. Grantee submits a request for emergency access. Grantee is notified of confirmation.Īn emergency occurs, resulting in grantee requiring access to grantor's Vault. On confirmation, the grantor's Master Key is encrypted using the grantee's public key and stored once encrypted. Grantor is notified of acceptance via email and confirms the grantee as their trusted emergency contact. On acceptance, the grantee's public key is stored with the invite. Grantee is notified of invitation via email and accepts the invitation to become a trusted emergency contact. The invitation (valid for only 5 days) specifies a user access level and includes a request for the grantee's public key. Emergency Access uses public key exchange and encryption/decryption to allow users to give a trusted emergency contact permission to access Vault data in a zero knowledge encryption environment:Ī Bitwarden user (the grantor) invites another Bitwarden user to become a trusted emergency contact (the grantee).

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