Hi, All commanders: single letter quicknav, numpad, and option key are ignored in password entry fields and have been for several versions. It is a little like when using a Braille display on the web on a Windows machine and braille translation for contractions gets turned off.
I suggest you just get used to it. Jonathan > On Jun 8, 2026, at 5:40 AM, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > I have sent the below to Apple Accessibility. If others have this problem > perhaps you could also submit it as a bug! > > I am blind and so use VoiceOver on both my 9 year old iMac running the latest > Ventura and my new MacBook Air running the latest Tahoe. > VoiceOver is setup with the Numeric keypad commander. I thus use this to > navigate my display. This all works fine until the navigation encounters a > secure edit field such as a password. Then very annoyingly the Numeric Keypad > keys stop doing VO navigation and instead enter digits into the secure edit > field which I think is a bug!!! > This has sometimes corrupted my passwords e.g while editing 1 password forms. > From habit I automatically used the Numeric Keypad expecting it to only do > VoiceOver navigation and then find that it has corrupted my password. This > happens on both Ventura and Tahoe. > I hope that you can fix this very annoying bug. > Best regards … Paul Hopewell > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/E5B1DD6D-4544-462E-A7C0-96FF0A944DE9%40hopewell.org.uk. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/7EEFC0BE-77A8-4294-BD40-211CE622817B%40gmail.com.
