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Speaker 1:
Live life you want.
Speaker 2:
Access On.
Jonathan Mosen:
Welcome to Access On, the technology podcast of the National Federation of the Blind. This week, it's highlights from our recent Access On webinar, all about 1Password. It's Jonathan Mosen at the Jernigan Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, welcoming you to episode 65 of Access On.
And as I put this episode together, I know many of us, myself included, are getting ready to head to the CSUN Technology Conference in Anaheim, California. Always good to see many people there who want to geek out about technology. And if you are there, well, you might like to come to my presentation on people with disabilities being a market too. There are plenty of other presentations of interest as well.
And I look forward to saying hi to many Access On listeners. Before we move on to 1Password, I want to give you a heads-up, as they say, about the next Access On Seminar. It's happening not long after CSUN, so we give you a few days to recover.
And then this one's on March the 18th. That is a Wednesday from 1:00 until 5:00. So this is a four-hour-long seminar, and it's looking at screen readers today. We're going to be giving you an overview of all the different screen readers that you can use and their pros and cons. We're focusing for the most part on the Windows platform for this one. So we hope that you will join us for that.
You can register by going to nfb.org/sena. That's nfb.org/Sena. But now let's take a look at 1Password. We're playing you the formal presentation part of the Access On webinar that was held on February the 24th, and we appreciate all the positive feedback that we've received on this. Now, I don't know what to make of this.
I don't know whether we jinxed 1Password or something, but at the very moment that I was delivering the webinar presentation you are about to hear, word came through from 1Password that they are increasing their prices.
So let me give you the new information that came through during the webinar. For renewals on or after March 27th, 2026, 1Password is increasing prices for its consumer plans as follows. For individuals, you will now pay 47.88 dollars per year. That's equivalent to 3.99 dollars per month when the price is billed annually. It was 35.88 dollars a year, or equivalent to 2.99 dollars a month when billed annually.
For families, the new pricing, 71.88 dollars per year. That works out at 5.99 dollars per month when billed annually. It was 59 dollars and 88 cents per year, which was the equivalent of 4.99 dollars a month when billed annually. The prices haven't changed since 2005, so it's been a long time. Now let's go into the 1Password Access On webinar.
This could be the most important webinar you attend all year because over the next hour, I'm going to talk you through one of the most important tools you can have on your computer and your phone, a password manager.
So let's first establish our why. Why do you want this thing? You want this thing because every one of us has dozens, and possibly, depending on how connected you are, hundreds of online accounts, email, banking, social media, streaming services, shopping sites. The list goes on and on.
And if you are using the same password or a small number of passwords across all those sites, you're putting yourself at serious risk. If just one of those sites suffers a data breach, attackers can try that same password on every service that you use. This is a technique called credential stuffing, and it's one of the most common ways that people's accounts get compromised.
And you might be saying, "Well, I'm not going to have my data compromised like that because my password is 50 characters long and sure, I'm using it across multiple sites, but it is so long and complicated, nobody's ever going to guess it."
Unfortunately, that is not any guarantee at all. There are many situations you read about these in the media a lot where somebody has obtained usernames and passwords. Maybe those passwords are very long and complex, but if those passwords are long, complex, and reused across multiple sites, then it's a fun time in store for the hacker who will undoubtedly try that same username and password combination across many sites until they get a match.
The solution is to use a unique, strong, randomly generated password for every single account that you have. Now, the problem, of course, is that no human can memorize hundreds of random passwords, and that's where a password manager comes in. Today, we're going to focus on an application called 1Password.
We chose 1Password for this webinar for several reasons. It's one of the most widely used and trusted password managers out there, and it works across Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android.
It has browser extensions for all major browsers, and critically for us, it's accessible. Our primary focus today will be on the Windows desktop application and the browser extension, because that's where most of your password management activity will take place. Toward the end though, I'll touch on using 1Password on an iPhone with voiceover.
1Password is an encrypted digital vault. You could think of it like a safe where you store all of your sensitive information. That of course includes your password, but it can also include credit card numbers, bank account details, software licenses, secure notes, passport information, and a lot more.
Everything you store in 1Password is protected by end-to-end AES 256 bit encryption. That's the same standard of encryption used by governments and financial institutions. The key point is that your data is encrypted on your device before it ever leaves your computer or your phone.
1Password themselves, the company, cannot see your data. They don't have your encryption keys and they can't read your passwords. The security geeks sometimes call this zero knowledge architecture, so that's what they mean when they talk about that. 1Password uses what they call two key derivation to protect your account.
Your data is protected by a combination of two things, your account password, which you have to memorize, and a secret key, which is a very long string of letters and numbers that's generated when you create your account. When you set up 1Password on a new device, you're going to need both that password and your encryption key to decrypt the data.
This means that even if someone were to breach 1Password servers, they couldn't access your information without also having both your account password and your secret key. When you visit a site where you've saved a login, 1Password can fill in your username and password for you with the press of a single key.
It's really convenient as well as extremely secure. It can generate strong, unique passwords whenever you create a new account or change an existing password. You can monitor your security with a feature called Watchtower. This will alert you if you have any saved passwords that have been involved in some sort of data breach, if you have weak passwords or you've reused your password across more than one site.
If you're using a site with a password that offers the option of a passkey, Watchtower will alert you about that too, because you'll want to switch to passkeys whenever you can. 1Password syncs across all your devices and all your browsers on that device.
When you save a password on your Windows computer, for example, it's immediately available on your iPhone or iPad or Mac or any other device where you've set up 1Password. And if you saved credentials using 1Password on Microsoft Edge, and then for some reason you switched to Firefox later, as long as you have the extension installed on both, it will be available on both.
1Password offers several plans. For most of us in this webinar, the two that matter are the individual plan and the family's plan. The individual plan costs 2.99 dollars per month when it's billed annually, and that works out at about 36 dollars per year. With this plan, you get unlimited password storage, the ability to use 1Password on all of your devices, auto fill in all supported browsers, the Watchtower security monitoring feature I just talked about, and 24/7 email support.
The family's plan costs 4.99 dollars per month when it's billed annually. That's about 60 dollars a year. It includes everything in the individual plan, but it also covers up to five family members. That is the perfect size for me because I have a wife and four children. I have them all on 1Password to make sure that they are keeping secure online. You can add additional family members beyond five for 1 dollar per month each.
The family's plan is particularly powerful because of the concept of shared vaults. In 1Password, your items are stored in vaults. You could think of a vault as a folder or a container. When you first set up 1Password with a family's plan, you'll have at least two vaults, a private vault and a shared vault.
Your private vault is just for you. Nothing in your private vault is visible to anyone else in your family, not even the family organizer. This is where you would keep personal items like your personal email password or anything else that's just for you.
The shared vault, on the other hand, is visible to everyone in your family, and that's perfect for things like your wifi password, streaming service logins that the whole family uses, or the login for your home security system. You can store important notes in your shared vault that everyone has access to, like gate codes or when your recycling day is.
You can also create additional vaults if you want to share some items with only certain family members. For example, you might create a vault that only you and your partner can access for financial account passwords that the kids shouldn't see. As the family organizer, you can manage who has access to what, and you can recover a family member's account if they get locked out. This is an important safety net.
There's no free tier of 1Password, but both plans come with a 14-day free trial. You will need to enter a credit card to start the trial and it'll automatically convert to a paid subscription at the end of the 14 days if you don't cancel. 1Password also offers discounts for nonprofits, journalists, and some other groups, which you can find on their website. To sign up for 1Password, you would go to 1Password.com in your web browser.
That is the numeral one and then the word password.com. Navigate to the pricing page and choose your plan, then select the option to start your free trial. You'll be asked to enter your email address and then confirm it with a code sent to your inbox. After that, you arrive at one of the most important steps in the entire process, and that's choosing your account password. I cannot overstate the importance of this step.
Your 1Password account password is the master key to everything. It is the 1Password you've got to remember, hence the name of the app, 1Password. You'll use it every time you unlock 1Password on any device. Here's the critical thing to understand. 1Password cannot reset your account password for you.
Because of that zero knowledge encryption model that I was talking about before, they don't actually have your password and they've got no way to recover it if you forget it.
If you lose your account password and you haven't taken other precautions that we'll discuss, you could lose access to everything stored in 1Password. So what makes a good account password? Well, 1Password recommends using a passphrase.
That's a sequence of several random words. Something like correct horse battery staple is the classic example. A good passphrase is long enough to be secure, but much easier to remember than a string of random characters. Aim for at least four or five random words. Don't use a phrase from a song, a book, or a movie. You should make it truly random.
After you create your account, 1Password will offer to download something called an emergency kit. This is a PDF document that contains your sign-in address, your email address, your secret key, and a space to write your account password. Your secret key is a long string.
It's actually 34 letters and numbers separated by dashes. 1Password automatically generated it when you created your account. Together with your account password, it forms the complete encryption key for your data. You'll need your secret key whenever you sign into 1Password on a device for the first time.
The emergency kit also contains a setup code, which is a QR code that makes it easy to sign in on new devices. I appreciate that some people have better luck with QR codes than others, so you can sign into new devices by entering your sign-in address, email, secret key, and account password manually if you prefer to do that.
Just to be clear though, the good news is that once you have signed in on a device for the first time, your secret key is stored on that device, so you don't have to enter the secret key every time, just the first time.
Once you've done that, you only need your account password to unlock 1Password going forward. Here's what you should do with your emergency kit. First, download the PDF. It'll be in your downloads folder with a name like 1Password emergency kit.
You should save that in a digital form to a USB drive, but for security, don't leave a copy sitting in your downloads folder or cloud storage where others might find it. I also strongly recommend setting up a recovery code. You can do this after you've set up your account. A recovery code gives you a way to regain access to your account if you forget your password.
You can generate a recovery code from within 1Password or 1Password.com. Store this recovery code safely alongside your emergency kit. Now, obviously I've been using 1Password for many, many years, so I'm talking you through this with narration.
We will get to a point where I will fire up the screen reader and show you some of these things in practice. But another thing we have to talk about is installing 1Password onto your computer. To do that, you would go to 1Password.com/downloads/windows. You can just go to 1Password.com and follow the links, but if you want to go straight there, 1Password.com/downloads/windows. You do that in your web browser.
Download the installer, and then it will be in your downloads folder. Run that installer. The installation process is straightforward and the installer is accessible. Once you've installed 1Password, it'll launch and ask you to sign in.
This is where you enter your sign-in address, which for most personal accounts is going to be my.1password.com. It's my.1password.com. It may well be filled in for you in fact. Then you'll want to enter your email address, the one you signed up with, and your secret key, and finally your account password.
Once you've signed in, your secret key is saved on this device from now on, and then you'll only need your account password to unlock 1Password going forward. But as all the good infomercials say, "But wait, there's more." We aren't done yet actually, because you've got to install the 1Password extension for your browser, which is essential.
If you use multiple browsers, you will need to install the extension on all the browsers that you use. It is the browser extension that connects 1Password with your web browser and allows 1Password to fit in passwords, credit cards, and other information directly in your web browser on the pages that you visit. Without it, you would have to manually copy and paste everything and you don't want to do that.
1Password supports extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, and Safari. To install the extension, go to 1Password.com/downloads/browser-extension.
That's 1Password.com/downloads/browser-extension, or you can just follow the links from the main page. And from that browser extension page, you want to choose the browser or browsers that you have. You'll be taken to the appropriate extension store for your browser where you can install it.
Once you've done the install of the browser extension, the extension will automatically detect and connect to the 1Password desktop app. There's one more thing you should do, and that is to disable your browser's built-in password manager after you install 1Password. They all have them, and having two password managers competing to save and fill your passwords is going to cause you confusion.
I promise you nothing good will come of that at all. You can find instructions for turning off the built-in password manager for your specific browser on the 1Password support site. Now, I realize there's a bit there.
There's a bit of installing and configuration, but I promise you it is a one-off thing. And once it's done, it's absolutely worth it for the peace of mind and the significantly increased security that you will experience. So hang in there. And one thing I will say is that if you do get stuck, 1Password's support is very good.
Every time you start using 1Password, you'll need to unlock it. There are several ways to do this. The simplest method is to open the 1Password app and type your account password. So you go to the start menu, maybe type 1P, that should be enough to get 1Password coming up in Windows, press enter and you'll be prompted for the password.
But there are faster ways. Quick access is a feature that lets you summon a small search window from anywhere on your desktop without switching to the full 1Password app.
On Windows, the default keyboard shortcut is control, shift, space. If 1Password is locked, quick access will ask for your account password. Once it's unlocked, you can immediately search for any item in your vault.
This is one of the keyboard shortcuts you'll use most often, so commit it to memory, control, shift, space. I went for a quick reboot before we started the webinar, so I haven't used 1Password since my computer restarted. I'm going to press control shift space now.
Speaker 4:
1Password. Enter your password, password edit.
Jonathan Mosen:
We're in a web-like environment here, so if you have a browse mode that you need to turn off, or in my case, a forms mode that you need to turn on, you can do that. Usually you'd press enter.
Now we need to type in that long passphrase that I talked about earlier to unlock your 1Password. Obviously, I'm not going to let you hear what mine is, but it's going to take me a wee bit to type it in because it is very long, so I'm typing it in now and I'm going to press enter.
Speaker 4:
1Password document. Unlock, work in quick access M-1Password.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now we're in the quick access feature. There is a button in that password entry screen where you can make the full password visible. So if it's so long and complex that you need your screen reader to echo it back to you, you can make that happen. Just be really careful that nobody's overhearing or overseeing what you're typing. Many screen readers now have a screen curtain feature.
It's a good idea to enable this if you don't need anybody else to see your screen. Just get into the habit of turning that on because if you're using a laptop somewhere, you may not know that somebody's looking over your shoulder.
I'm presently listening to the audio dramatization of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which gives me a chance for the second time in the space of one month to say constant vigilance. So we have unlocked 1Password now and we're in the quick access feature, which I'll talk about some more shortly.
If you have Windows Hello set up on your PC, you can use it to unlock 1Password. This includes fingerprint readers, facial recognition cameras, or a pin.
If you want to enable this, you can open 1Password and go to settings by pressing control with comma, and then navigate to the security section and look for the option to unlock with Windows Hello. Let's just quickly show you this. We're still in quick settings, but I can press control comma.
Speaker 4:
Settings. Settings, general tabs selected. One of 10. Three regions, three headings and no links for smart glance highlights.
Jonathan Mosen:
So you are in the settings here. It's a web-like environment because this is an electron app. If I press control home.
Speaker 4:
1Password.
Jonathan Mosen:
I'm at the top of the screen now and I'm going to down arrow.
Speaker 4:
Group start settings. General tabs selected, one of 10.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now we're on this group of 10 settings categories. If I press enter here, we've given that focus and now I can down arrow.
Speaker 4:
Appearance tab selected. Two of security tabs selected. Three of 10. Privacy tabs selected. Four of 10. Browser tab selected. Five of 10. Autofill tap selected. Six of 10. Developer tap selected. Seven of 10. Labs tap selected, eight of 10. Advanced tap selected, nine of 10. Auto tap selected. 10 of 10.
Jonathan Mosen:
I'm down narrowing through those. As you can hear, it's very accessible. There are so many options in here. I can't possibly go through all of them, but you can explore them.
And if you want to find out more about a setting that I don't cover in this webinar today, you can certainly ask 1Password at support.1password.com or even have a conversation with your favorite AI service of choice and it'll probably help you out. But let's just show you this feature.
Speaker 4:
Advanced taps, labs taps, developer tap, auto filled, browser tap, privacy, security tap selected.
Jonathan Mosen:
There's security and it's already selected. So all I have to do to traverse the security options is press the space bar.
Speaker 4:
Security review button. Unlock using Windows Hello checkbox checked.
Jonathan Mosen:
And I have this selected, so it will unlock using Windows Hello. What that means is that when I've entered my password the first time after booting my computer, subsequently, if 1Password locks itself because I've been away from the computer long enough, all I need to do is enter my Windows pin or if I'm on a Windows computer that has a camera, I can just look at the camera and it'll unlock.
Similarly, I can give it my fingerprint if I have a fingerprint sensor on my laptop. There are plenty of other settings in here that you're welcome to explore. And I will talk more about some of the other settings a little bit later, but I wanted to show you how easy it is to navigate. So what we did was we pressed control shift space. We entered the password to unlock it. Then we went into quick access as a result of pressing that Control Shift space.
Control comma is the shortcut key to bring up settings. When you're done using 1Password, or if you step away from your computer, you can lock it with Control Shift L for lock. And as I mentioned, 1Password will also lock after a period of an activity.
You can configure that period of inactivity in those security settings we were just showing you. Before we start adding items, let's take a look at the 1Password screen and explore what's here. I'm going to actually open the full 1Password app for this, so I'll press alt F4 to get out of quick settings.
Speaker 4:
Desktop.
Jonathan Mosen:
And now I'm back on my desktop. I'll go to the start menu.
Speaker 4:
Search box edit.
Jonathan Mosen:
And I will type 1P.
Speaker 4:
1Password app, press write the new options.
Jonathan Mosen:
And that's enough for getting us there, so I'll press enter.
Speaker 4:
The most in family M-All items M-1 Password, the most in family M-All items M-1 password document.
Jonathan Mosen:
If I press shift tab, I will get into the main tree view, which is important. So let's press shift tab.
Speaker 4:
Separator vertical.
Jonathan Mosen:
And again.
Speaker 4:
Preview item profile one of eight.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now it would seem intuitive to press enter at this point, but when you do that and then you use the arrow keys, you don't get the behavior you're expecting. What you need to do is press shift tab one more time to get beyond this tree view.
Speaker 4:
Sidebar, current model, current page current, step C.
Jonathan Mosen:
Then you are on the sidebar and here you can press enter and then up and down arrow through it. So I pressed enter and you heard the jaw sound that indicates that forms mode is on. If I perform a say line at this point.
Speaker 4:
Profile current.
Jonathan Mosen:
We're on profile. If I down arrow now.
Speaker 4:
All items.
Jonathan Mosen:
We're on all items. When you've given focus to all items, you're able to then tab from this sidebar view and you'll be able to find another list of all the items in your 1Password vault. Here you can up and down arrow through credit cards, passwords, logins, secure notes, all kinds of things that you have stored in 1Password.
If you get busy with 1Password like I do and you have absolutely everything in here, that's going to be quite a lot of things to go through. I think I have about 600 items in 1Password now. So you can narrow the view down by down arrowing further.
Speaker 4:
Favorites.
Jonathan Mosen:
You can add items to favorites. These are obviously things that are particularly important to you. I don't personally see a need to add logins to favorites because they just happen automatically when you go to the appropriate website. Where it can be handy to add things to favorites is other things like secure notes.
For example, if you have a state ID and there's a number and you have to quote that number, you could put it here. You could put your Social Security number here, which is something that we have to enter a lot of the time and you'll have ready access to it.
Now, obviously people might be shuttering and saying, "Gosh, would I really put my social security number in here?" Absolutely you would, because 1Password is secure as long as you have a strong, robust passphrase and you've got that encryption key as well. It's absolutely acceptable and expected that you would put your Social Security number in something like 1Password.
Speaker 4:
Watchtower.
Jonathan Mosen:
I thoroughly recommend visiting Watchtower from time to time. I actually have a reminder that comes up monthly in To Do List, which is my task manager, reminding me to pay watch tower, visit every so often for all the reasons I talked about before.
And just to be clear, to give focus to any of these items, you would press enter and then you would tab. And once you've pressed enter to give the item focus in this sidebar, then you're able to interact with it. I'll down arrow some more.
Speaker 4:
Vaults open.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now we are in the vaults that you have access to. If you've just set up 1Password and you're on a personal plan, you'll only have one vault. Because I have the family's plan, I do have some.
Speaker 4:
One, private, one to four.
Jonathan Mosen:
We talked about the private vault before.
Speaker 4:
Mosen Towers people have access to this vault.
Jonathan Mosen:
Back in New Zealand, we called our house Mosen Towers. I haven't changed it to the new name for our house here in Baltimore, and I should do that, but the point still applies. There are logins, other things that Bonnie and I both use, and they are pertinent to just us. So they're in this Mosen Tower's vault.
What that means is that if we go onto a website where we use a common login, when we auto fill the password on that website, we both have access to the same account. And of course, it's not just passwords in here. We also have other common information that we both want access to. We have access to each other's passport numbers, various things that we may need if we're completing forms.
Speaker 4:
Share with everyone in your family has access to this vault.
Jonathan Mosen:
So this is a nice feature. Even though my adult children are back in New Zealand, we can have a shared vault and common notes, information of importance gets put here.
Speaker 4:
Zero tags open, six of eight.
Jonathan Mosen:
I personally haven't made use of 1Password tags. It's not because I don't like them, it's just I haven't gotten wrong to them. But one way of organizing your data is to tag it with certain common tags to make them easier to find.
For example, you might have a tag called streaming for all of your streaming services. Another financial tag for your bank, credit card company and related investments. Tags can be whatever you want them to be and you can apply them to whatever item makes sense.
Speaker 4:
One, starter kit, four, four.
Jonathan Mosen:
And at the bottom here, we do have the starter kit readily accessible once you've logged into 1Password in case you need to download it at any time. So that is the sidebar. And just to show you what happens, let's go up.
Speaker 4:
Z1, most hour private. Zero, one.
Jonathan Mosen:
So here's my private vault. I'm going to press enter to give it focus. And now I'll press tab.
Speaker 4:
The Mosen family M-private M-1 password. No vault button.
Jonathan Mosen:
I can set up a new vault here.
Speaker 4:
Separator vertical 50. Back button. Search into Mosen family edit has pop-up.
Jonathan Mosen:
And although I tabbed to it, there is also a handy shortcut and it is exactly the shortcut that you would expect for find. It's control F for find, which is a standard Windows convention. So once you have a vault selected or if you have all items selected, you can press control F, you can type what you're searching for and then press enter and you will get the results.
If you want to narrow the results further to a specific kind of entry in your vault and I'll talk about some of those entries in a moment, you can press tab and restrict the search, which can make the results a bit more easy to manage. When you find the result that you want to interact with, you press enter on it.
You can then press control E if you want to edit the result. You can press control C to copy the username to the clipboard, and you can press control shift C to copy the password to the clipboard should you need to do that.
Most of the time you will not because as we will see a little bit later, 1Password will autofill all of that information on a website for you when you want to log in. Now there are other keystrokes.
We will go through them as we move through this webinar, but if you ever want to access them all in one place, you can press control question mark and that'll pop up with a nice user-friendly window that has all the keyboard shortcuts inside. We will be back with more on 1Password as Access On continues.
Speaker 5:
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Speaker 6:
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Jonathan Mosen:
You're with Access On from the National Federation of the Blind, and today we're talking about 1Password. I'm assuming that many people in this webinar are starting with a clean slate. In other words, they have a fresh copy of 1Password, and that means that you need to add things to it. There are two ways primarily that you can do this.
One is to have the browser extension prompt you whenever you log into a website, and that's extremely convenient. The other is to manually add something from within the 1Password app itself. Let's start with the latter approach, adding things to the 1Password app directly. Just so that we're all at a common point of reference, I'm going to go back to the sidebar.
Speaker 4:
Back button separator three view at two. Sidebar.
Jonathan Mosen:
And go up.
Speaker 4:
Zero profile one of eight.
Jonathan Mosen:
That's where we land by default when we open the 1Password app. So that may well be where you are. I'm going to press enter. Now I'm going to press control N, which is a standard Windows convention for adding something new.
Speaker 4:
Try searching anything added combo collapsed.
Jonathan Mosen:
The first thing that 1Password wants to know is what you are searching for. Let's say that you have an account on Walmart and you want to add that here. I'm going to type Walmart, W-A-L-M-A-R-T. And now I'm going to press down arrow.
Speaker 4:
Walmart login. Two of five.
Jonathan Mosen:
And there's Walmart login, but I can keep going just to see what else there is.
Speaker 4:
Walmart secure note. Three Walmart credit card. Show all categories. Five of five.
Jonathan Mosen:
All right. I'm going to up arrow.
Speaker 4:
Walmart, Walmart, Walmart login.
Jonathan Mosen:
To Walmart login and I'll press enter.
Speaker 4:
Select it, blank, press down to generate password or type a password. Edit DXRK67BQK.
Jonathan Mosen:
1Password has tried to be helpful here and generate a random password for you. The nature of that password is configurable in the password generator. You may prefer a random string like that. You may want digits and numbers and uppercase and lowercase. You may prefer passphrases.
You can configure all of that in the password generator and we may have time to go through that, but you can certainly investigate that in the password generator settings. If however, you are adding your own login that you already have with Walmart, you don't want to use 1Password's login, at least not initially.
You want to use your own. So you would just start typing the current password that you have here and it will override the suggested one, the random one that it's generated. And you will have your own password in the password field. There are fields before this. I'm going to press shift tab.
Speaker 4:
Press down to choose suggested username or type a username.
Jonathan Mosen:
I'm just going to stop that there because I don't want email addresses disclosed of mine that are not pertinent to the National Federation of the Blind, but here we have an edit combo box. And because I've been using 1Password for a while, it has accurately suggested my personal email as the login for Walmart.
That is already filled in. If you are just starting with 1Password, it may not have sufficient information to do that for you, in which case into the edit combo field, you will type the login that you have at Walmart, normally your personal email address.
This is an edit combo, which means that you can down arrow and there may be multiple options. For example, I do have my NFB address available to me here. Not that I have a Walmart account with my NFB address, but it's conceivable, I suppose. And so you can choose that if you want to, or just type an email address into this edit combo field. If I press shift tab again.
Speaker 4:
Title edit, Walmart.
Jonathan Mosen:
This is where you type the name of the entry in 1Password. It's simply for identification purposes. This can be handy when you have multiple accounts with the same entity. For example, if you do some procurement at your workplace, you may have access to an Amazon business account in that context, but you are also likely to have an Amazon personal account.
If that were the case, you could type Amazon Business and Amazon Personal so that when you log in to Amazon, you'll get the choice and you can choose the appropriate one for the purchase that you are making. I'm going to go forward again with the tab key.
Speaker 4:
Press down to choose suggested username or type a username. Press down to generate passwords or-
Jonathan Mosen:
And tab one more time.
Speaker 4:
Reorder, drag, handle for website, field button. Website, edit, website.
Jonathan Mosen:
Let me talk you through what's happening here. When we press control N, we searched on Walmart and we chose Walmart login. That told 1Password that we are going to store this in the logins section of our vault. But 1Password doesn't automatically fill in the website for you. You have to do that yourself to some degree.
You don't need to go and find the exact URL of the login page on the Walmart website. All you have to do here is enter the domain that this login is going to pertain to. So in the website field, you just have to enter walmart.com. That will be sufficient for 1Password to associate this login with anything on Walmart where you might have a login page.
So it's pretty straightforward. There are other fields here that you can add if you want to for further information. When you're done, just press control S, another standard Windows convention, and that will save this login to your vault.
So this is a quick way of getting information into 1Password. It should also be said that there are various ways and other password managers to export your data. That's quite a complex question because there are so many password managers out there.
You may have been using a password manager from Apple or Google or specific to your web browser. If any password management tool that you've been using previously offers a way to export your data, the chances are good that 1Password knows how to import it and you'll be able to find that in settings. I don't want to save this entry, so I'm going to press escape.
Speaker 4:
Sidebar. Current mobile.
Jonathan Mosen:
And now I'm back on the sidebar. So that's one way of getting a login into 1Password and we'll discuss other ways to get logins into it in just a moment. But there is more information you can add. So let's go through how you would do that. I'm going to press control N.
Speaker 4:
Try searching anything that combo collapsed.
Jonathan Mosen:
And I'm going to press enter to turn forms mode on. In this case, I'm going to type SSN.
Speaker 4:
Social Security number. One to five.
Jonathan Mosen:
1Password is smart and just by typing in SSN, it came up with Social Security number. There are other choices, so if I down arrow.
Speaker 4:
SSN login. SSN secure note. SSN credit card. Show all categories.
Jonathan Mosen:
And now we'll go back up.
Speaker 4:
SS Social Security number.
Jonathan Mosen:
I'll press enter on that.
Speaker 4:
Title edit, Social Security number.
Jonathan Mosen:
And now we have an entry where we can enter our Social Security number. If I press the tab key.
Speaker 4:
Reorder, drag, handle for name, field button. Label edit, name. Text edit.
Jonathan Mosen:
And there's the text for the note.
Speaker 4:
Delete button. Reorder, drag, handle for number, field button. Label edit, number. Press them to generate password or delete button. Add another field button, then add more button, then add any notes about this item here. Edit. Add a location button. Press down to choose a suggested tag or type a tag name. Edit combo expanded. The Mosen family save button.
Jonathan Mosen:
So here is a specific way to enter your Social Security number. You can tab through this entry. You can tab to the save button and press the space bar or enter. Or once you've entered your Social Security number, you can just press control S to save it.
You may have noticed that once we got to the field where you enter the actual Social Security number, it's treated like a password field, which means that the special entry for a Social Security number acknowledges the sensitivity of that particular identifier. It's back out. That's to informs models, so I press escape one more time.
Speaker 4:
Sidebar. Current mode.
Jonathan Mosen:
And now we're back in the sidebar and I'll press control N again.
Speaker 4:
Try searching anything edit combo collapsed. Try searching anything.
Jonathan Mosen:
And I'm going to type Amex in this case, so I'll turn forms mode on. And let's type.
Speaker 4:
Amex.o.
Jonathan Mosen:
That is a little bit misleading. If I just down an up arrow.
Speaker 4:
App credit card.
Jonathan Mosen:
Credit card is actually the top of this list, and that's what I want if I want to enter an American Express credit card. So I'll press enter to choose credit card.
Speaker 4:
Title edit, credit card.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now when I tap through, there are fields pertinent to entering a credit card.
Speaker 4:
Reorder, drag, handle for cardholder, name, field button. Text edit. Reorder, drag handle for type field button. Type edit combo expanded.
Jonathan Mosen:
We do want to make a selection for the type here. So if I down arrow
Speaker 4:
Visa one of 11. Mastercard, American Express, three of 11.
Jonathan Mosen:
There are 11 options here. I'm going to choose American Express by pressing enter.
Speaker 4:
Type edit combo collapsed. American Express.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now I can press tab.
Speaker 4:
Reorder, drag handle for number field button. Type the credit card number, edit.
Jonathan Mosen:
And now we type the credit card number in if we wanted to add this.
Speaker 4:
Reorder, drag handle for verification number, field button. Number edit. Reorder, drag handle for expiry date field button.
Jonathan Mosen:
And on and on, it will go with all of the fields that you're likely to be prompted for when you are making an online transaction. Or for that matter, if you just need to keep on record when the card's going to expire, the phone number of the issuing entity of this credit card, all sorts of things that you can store in here and you can add your own fields.
There are two benefits in doing this. The first one is that it's great to have one very secure repository of all of this kind of data. But the second really cool benefit is that on most websites, I have seen a few where it doesn't work, but on most websites, once you have your credit cards in here, you're able to choose from a list and it will populate the fields with the credit card information. So it speeds you up considerably when you are making online purchases.
This also gives you greater choice over whether you choose to store a credit card on a particular website for future use. We know that's a time saver, but the more websites on which your credit card is stored, the greater the security risk. So if you keep it in your 1Password vault and just enter it whenever you make a purchase, there is greater security potentially in working that way.
So there is quite a bit of configuration involved in getting 1Password optimal, entering a lot of information that you already have, logins, credit cards, and there's one more thing you may want to do as well that really can speed you up. I'll press escape and escape one more time.
Speaker 4:
Keep editing button.
Jonathan Mosen:
No, we don't want to save this.
Speaker 4:
The start changes button.
Jonathan Mosen:
And so I press space.
Speaker 4:
Reorder drag.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now we're back on the sidebar. I'm going to press control N to add another new item.
Speaker 4:
Try searching anything at combo collect.
Jonathan Mosen:
I'll turn Forms mode on. And this time I'm going to type Fred Frisbee.
Speaker 4:
Fred, Fred, Fred, Fris login.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now we don't want to log in for Fred. We're going to down arrow.
Speaker 4:
Fred Frisbee secure load. To Fred Frisbee credit card, show all categories.
Jonathan Mosen:
And this time I want to show all categories. I'll press enter.
Speaker 4:
Fred Frisbee credit card. So Fred Frisbee identity.
Jonathan Mosen:
This is what we want. Actually, let's just go through all of these categories so you have a picture of what you can enter here.
Speaker 4:
Fred Frisbee password. Five Fred Frisbee document. Fred Frisbee API credentials. Fred Frisbee Bank account. Fred Frisbee crypto wallet. Fred Frisbee database. Fred Frisbee driver license. Fred Frisbee email. Fred Frisbee medical record. Fred Frisbee membership.
Jonathan Mosen:
I use membership a lot actually because I seem to be on a lot of loyalty programs, Marriott and Hilton and other hotels that I stay at and things like that. And it's just handy to have everything in the one place.
Speaker 4:
Fred Frisbee outdoor license. Fred Frisbee passport. Fred Frisbee rewards. Fred Frisbee SSHP. Fred Frisbee server. Fred Frisbee social security number. Fred Frisbee software license. Fred Frisbee wireless router.
Jonathan Mosen:
I'm going to go back up.
Speaker 4:
Fred Frisbee Medical. Fred Frisbee. Fred Frisbee Driver. Fred Frisbee database. Fred Frisbee Crypto. Fred Frisbee Bank. Fred Frisbee API. Fred Frisbee document. Fred Frisbee password. Fred Frisbee identity.
Jonathan Mosen:
There we are. Item four is the identity. Adding an identity for yourself is a really good idea. This saves me so much time. I'll press enter.
Speaker 4:
Title edit, Fred Frisbee.
Jonathan Mosen:
The title is just the name in 1Password that the entry will have.
Speaker 4:
Section edit identification.
Jonathan Mosen:
There is a lot in here and I won't go through it or you can explore it at your leisure, but we're at the identification section first, so our tab.
Speaker 4:
Reorder, drag, handle for first name, field button. Text edit.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now we type the first name, so in this case it will be Fred.
Speaker 4:
Reorder, drag handle for initial field button. Text edit. Reorder, drag handle for last name, field button, text edit.
Jonathan Mosen:
You can fill as many or as few of these fields as you would like. But if you go through and complete lots of these identity fields, what you can then do is when you go to a website and it is asking for information, 1Password can fill all those fields in for you. You do have to be a bit careful. I've seen one or two situations where it gets it wrong, but the vast majority of the time, 1Password fills in the correct fields.
So you can see that this saves you a lot of time. Not only is it making you more secure online because you have a unique password for every website that you visit, or hopefully you're switching to pass keys when they are available. But also when you have your credit card in here, when you have the ability to sign up and complete an identity in here, it is speeding you way up.
And as screen reader users, we will definitely take the productivity win. So you can experiment with this yourself by pressing control N when you're in 1Password and choosing to add any of these sorts of items. So let's look at another scenario where you have a username and password on a website, but your user 1Password and you want to get it into 1Password through the browser extension in as simple a way as possible.
So we've just seen one way where you can edit via the new options in 1Password itself. You can also do this via the browser extension if you want. And the things we do for these Access On webinars, I tell you, because what I've done is I've deleted my Walmart login from 1Password and for the moment I've written it down here in Braille so that I can log in and show you how we can save a login to 1Password that way. So thanks to the marvels of modern editing, I am on the Walmart login page.
Speaker 4:
Log in Walmart personnel Microsoft.
Jonathan Mosen:
In the past, before I deleted this from 1Password, by the way, the only thing I would have to do to log into Walmart at this point would be to press the magical key control backslash. Having deleted for the purposes of this demonstration my Walmart login, if I do that now...
Speaker 4:
Log in Walmart document. 1Password menu is available. No items to show.
Jonathan Mosen:
And 1Password tells me that there are no items to show right now.
Speaker 4:
Phone number.
Jonathan Mosen:
So I'm going to log in manually.
Speaker 4:
Phone number or email edit, black.
Jonathan Mosen:
And I got to type in some relevant information to log me in and press tab.
Speaker 4:
See our privacy mesh continue button. Log in Walmart document. Log in Walmart.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now I am on another page where I have some radio buttons here.
Speaker 4:
Text me a verification code radio button checked. One of one. Email me a verification code radio button not checked. One of one. Password radio button not checked. One of one.
Jonathan Mosen:
In this case, I do want to enter a password.
Speaker 4:
Log in Walmart. Password radio button checked. One of one. Enter your password, password editor required.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now I'm going to consult my handy dandy Braille document and type the password, which is quite long. And now let's see.
Speaker 4:
Show password button. Forgot password. Keep me signed and checkbox checked. Uncheck if using-
Jonathan Mosen:
I'm not going to do that actually.
Speaker 4:
Not checked. Show more info button. Sign in button.
Jonathan Mosen:
And we'll sign in.
Speaker 4:
Log in Walmart document.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now it's logging me in, but even while that is happening, I can go to the bottom of the screen by pressing control N.
Speaker 4:
Save button.
Jonathan Mosen:
And 1Password's browser extension has popped up and there's a save button here. So all I need to do actually is press enter on the save button. And my username and password, even though they are on separate screens, will be saved in 1Password, and then I'll be able to have 1Password automatically fill it in future if I just press control backslash to log in on this page.
Speaker 4:
The Mosen family private button when you collapsed.
Jonathan Mosen:
I up-arrowed and I can choose the vault that this will be saved in. Where this could be handy is, for example, if Bonnie and I are going to use the same Walmart login, then I could save it to the vault that is still called the Mosen Towers Vault. And Bonnie would also have access to this login.
Speaker 4:
Edit button.
Jonathan Mosen:
I can edit it if I want to make sure that everything is as I expect, but normally if I'm logging in this way and adding something to 1Password, I find it is sufficient just to press control N and choose save and then it's added to 1Password. So this is another way for you to get material into 1Password if you're just getting started.
Go to the website, log in as you normally do, and then choose save when the browser extension pops up at the bottom of the page, at least if you're using a browse mode type of screen reader and you're done. Now, I'm not here to judge. And I suspect what is happening is that you may well have a password or a few passwords that you are using across multiple websites if you've never used any kind of password manager before.
Watchtower is going to give you a hard time about that because that's what Watchtower is for, and it's right to give you a hard time about that. But now that you have 1Password, you can fix this. So the first thing to do would be to log in with all of those accounts that you have, even if they have the same password and save them to 1Password, because what that will do is create a record of things that you need to get fixed.
You want to do it as soon as possible, but don't stress if you don't do it all at once. Even if it takes you a month or two to get your cybersecurity in better shape, it's better to get started in some form than to never get started at all. When you have these saved in 1Password, you can go to the account page for each of these services that you're logged into and there'll be an option there to change your password.
This gives you the opportunity to create a unique password for every site that you visit and 1Password is excellent at helping with this. And these steps apply whether you are changing a password on an account that you've had for a long time and you may be using a common password you want to fix that or whether you're signing up for a brand new site now that you have 1Password.
When you're tabbing to a field where you're creating or updating an account, 1Password's browser extension will detect that this is a password field on a signup form. It'll display an inline suggestion. Visually, this is below the field, offering to use a suggested password. You can select this suggestion to fill in a strong, randomly generated password. Sometimes pressing control backslash is sufficient to allow you to see the password and select to use it.
You can also, if you tab to the password field and press enter, then press down arrow. And what you often find is that the down arrow will cause the password field to populate with what 1Password is suggesting. This down arrow track, which can be a bit of a nuisance at times actually, also works at logins.
So if you want to, you can press the down arrow key once you've enabled forms mode or turned off your browse mode, depending on what screen reader you're using. And often the username and password will be populated in there.
Where it can be a nuisance is where you need to down arrow for legitimate reasons and 1Password is hogging the down arrow key. Sometimes pressing down arrow with a modifier is enough to get you out of that problem. But I would typically recommend using control backslash to fill in fields in 1Password.
If you want more control over the password that 1Password is generating for you, you can open the 1Password browser extension pop-up. And the key to do that is control shift X. Now there's an exception to that rule, just like there's an exception to almost every rule, and that is if you are using Firefox.
If you're using Firefox, you'll get into this browser extension window by pressing control period. Once you have the pop-up open, you can access the password generator with Control G. And when you do that in the password generator, you can adjust those settings.
You can choose between a random password made up of characters or a passphrase made up of words separated by a delimiter. You can adjust the length and toggle with it to include numbers, symbols, and uppercase letters. Once you're happy with the generated password, you can use Control C to copy it to your clipboard.
But let me stress this is only all necessary if you want really granular control over the passwords that it's generating. You don't have to remember these passwords. As long as the password is compliant with what the website is looking for, usually you can press control backslash and just accept the password that 1Password is nominating or press down arrow and press enter to accept it as well. After you complete the signup process, 1Password will typically offer to save the new login.
So it's the same thing that we just saw. It's really important that you do this final step. 1Password has generated a random password for you, and that's great, that's very secure, but it hasn't saved the entry and it won't unless you expressly do that control end once you've logged in or created the account at least, and you've found that 1Password option to save to your vault.
If you follow that trick that I was talking about earlier where you just load everything into 1Password initially and then you have a plan to update to random passwords for every site that you have, the prompt will be a bit different when you want to save your password that you've changed because 1Password will know that you already have a login for that website.
And so it'll say, "Well, do you want me to update the existing login for this website or do you want me to create a new entry?" Again, this is an important question because if you have multiple accounts on the one website, 1Password can absolutely accommodate that scenario.
But if you were just going ahead and updating passwords because the other ones were too generic, it'll just update the existing entry for you. So be sure to check that prompt carefully.
Now let's check a couple of scenarios where we put this all into action. I'm on the Pinecast website at the moment in Google Chrome. Pinecast is a podcast management tool. I have an account of my own on there, but we also have an account at the National Federation of the Blind. So I'm on the login page for Pinecast.
Speaker 4:
Log in Google Chrome.
Jonathan Mosen:
And I just need to press control backslash at this point.
Speaker 4:
Items menu podcast Jonathan.
Jonathan Mosen:
If I had just one account, pressing control backslash would log me in. In this case though, I have two accounts and so a menu has popped up and I can choose the one I want.
Speaker 4:
Pinecast edit now.
Jonathan Mosen:
Now that's the NFB one, which I've called Pinecast NFB, and I've selected that now and I'll press enter.
Speaker 4:
Leaving menus, podcast dashboard, dashboard.
Jonathan Mosen:
And that's all that's necessary. I've pressed enter to log in. It filled in the username and password, and now I am on the Pinecast dashboard. That is beauty and simplicity in itself. It's rare, but every so often I have seen the control backslash key not working for some reason. If you do find a website where that is the case, you can navigate to the first form field and enable forms mode or disable browse mode and then press the down arrow key.
And more often than not, if the control backslash key is not behaving, pressing down arrow on a form field will give you a choice to press enter and enter the credentials. Often it is not necessary even to press the submit button. 1Password will log you in. Occasionally it is necessary to press the submit button. You can also use 1Password as a browser favorites tool because I use multiple browsers on multiple devices.
I no longer use my browser's favorite feature. I just use 1Password for that purpose. The quickest way to do this is to bring up the browser extension by pressing control shift X if you're on anything but Firefox or control period. If you are using Firefox, you'll then be in a search window so you can press enter and then type your search.
For example, let's say Amazon. Press down arrow to go through the results. When you find your Amazon login, just press enter and it will open in a new tab and log you in if it's able to do that. If you don't have a pass key as an option for a website that you are visiting, it's a very good idea to enable two-factor authentication if the website supports it, and most now do.
Two-factor authentication requires two things, something you know, a password, and in our case, 1Password knows that, so it can be unique and lengthy and something you have, usually a smartphone or an authenticator app.
If a website requires two-factor authentication, you do have the option, should you wish to exercise it, to have the second factor authentication in 1Password as well. After you've filled in your username and password, it can automatically fill in the two-factor authentication, such as a code, or it can copy it to the clipboard for you to paste in.
Two-factor authentication is a big improvement over just having a password, but passkeys are the gold standard. And whenever passkeys are available, it's a very good idea to use them. They're actually simpler to use and they're way more secure than the old password system.
Passkeys are a relatively new technology, and I want to spend some time on that because they represent the future of authentication and 1Password has excellent support for them. A passkey is a more secure alternative to a traditional password. Instead of having a text-based password that you or a password manager creates, a passkey is a cryptographic key pair.
There's a private key which stays on your device and it's never shared and a public key, which is stored by the website. When you sign in with a passkey, there's a lot of talking behind the scenes that we don't even know about.
Your device proves that it holds the private key without ever sending it over the internet, and this means that passkeys can't be fished or hacked. If you land on a fake website, the passkey won't work because it's cryptographically bound to the real website's domain.
Passkeys also can't be guessed, so they can't be stolen in a data breach because the website only has the public key, and that's useless without the private key that only you have on your device. From a practical standpoint, signing in with a passkey is often faster than typing in a password. All you have to do is confirm your identity with your device's biometrics or your account password, and you're in.
1Password can save and manage your passkeys for you, just like it does with passwords. Just like there are many tools that helpfully offer to manage your passwords for you, there are various tools and operating systems that will offer to manage passkeys for you.
I recommend 1Password if you are a 1Password user, because it means your passkeys are synced across all of your devices. They're not locked to a single phone or computer. To save a passkey, you visit a website that supports passkeys. Watchtower will tell you this, by the way.
I was looking at Watchtower for the purposes of this webinar, and I found to my delight that it identified one website that we use where passkeys are available that I wasn't using one, and that is Instacart. So now I'm no longer using a password on Instacart. I have a passkey instead.
It's way more secure and actually it's way easier. So check your Watchtower first, and it will tell you if you could be switching to passkeys on any site that you're on. On the website, look for an option to add a passkey or switch to passkey sign-in, and that's often found in the site's security or account settings.
When the website asks you to create a passkey, 1Password will offer to save it for you. You can add it to an existing login item for that site or save it as a new item. To sign in with a passkey, all you have to do is visit the website's login page and choose the passkey option. 1Password will present the passkey you've saved for that site.
Select the one you want, confirm with your account password or biometrics, and just sign in. It's very simple. On Windows, before you can use the 1Password app to save and sign in with passkeys and apps, and on websites, you will need to enable passkey support in the 1Password settings.
So you open the 1Password app, go to settings by pressing control with comma, select autofill, and turn on show passkey suggestions. You can share items in 1Password, and the person you're sharing with doesn't have to have a 1Password account. This can be useful in certain limited situations. Obviously be super careful about this, but there are some parameters around how you share.
You can set up a link that expires after a certain period of time, and you can restrict that link to specific email addresses. Choose the share option for any item that you search for and select, and it'll prompt you through that process. In the time that remains to us, I want to turn our attention to 1Password on iOS with voiceover. I'm going to cover the essential steps for getting 1Password up and running on your iPhone. You open the app store and you search for 1Password.
You double tap to download and install the app. So standard operating procedure for getting an app onto your iPhone. Once you've installed it, you open 1Password and you will sign in with your account details. So to recap what we talked about earlier, you will need your sign-in address, your email, secret key, and account password.
Next is the most important step on iOS. You need to tell your iPhone to use 1Password for filling in passwords rather than the built-in passwords app that Apple has. On my iPhone, I'm in the settings app now, and I'm going to choose. We'll double tap that. What we're looking for is this one. Let's double tap.
That will allow 1Password to do its thing once we tell the phone that 1Password is the app that we want. There's a very good chance that this is toggled on. It is by default if you have all of this enabled. You want to turn this off so that all of your passwords and passkeys are going to the one place that's cross-platform. We'll click right.
This may well be toggled off, although there is a kind of a wizard where 1Password tries to get you to where you need to be, but if it's toggled off, you want to make sure this is on. I have all sorts of other options in here that have the potential to do this work. If you have more than one on, it really can get complex. So I've made sure that only 1Password is enabled. We also want to enable this one.
And there's another thing that we want to change. We'll navigate by heading. Yeah. All right. So that's enabled in 1Password as well. So I've basically gone all in 1Password on my iPhone. Once you've done these initial configuration steps, using 1Password on iOS is quite seamless. So here's the typical way that this will work.
You would open Safari and navigate to a website where you need to sign in. And I'll show you how this works. I have the honor of working with a great team of people on a voluntary internet radio station called Mushroom FM. It's called that because it's the home of the fungi, you see, and it plays music from the 50s through the 80s and is staffed by blind broadcasters.
As well as being available on all the apps and all those things, it has a website, mushroomfm.com, and that is a Drupal installation. Drupal is the same technology that we use here at the National Federation of the Blind, and I administer that website.
So I'm now on the page where I can log in. I don't often log in to Mushroom FM's administration on my iPhone, but I can and get things done. So I'm going to navigate by form field. I'll double tap.
Now I'm going to place my finger above the query row. Now it's going to give me the username and I don't want that on the webinar, so I just stopped it, but it's found the password. So I'm going to, with my face in view, double tap.
And now it has logged me in. Yeah. So now I'm logged into Mushroom FM, and that's the same credentials that are available on every device that I use. And this is the beauty of having a cross-platform messenger. So in that case, because it requires biometric authentication, I just held the phone in front of my face and authenticated with face ID.
There are various settings in the 1Password app about how often you will need to enter your full password, how often you can use face ID alone. It is very configurable, and the 1Password app itself is accessible. Now, there is a chance that that's not going to work as seamlessly for you every time.
I have seen this, and if 1Password doesn't show the right suggestion or if no suggestion appears at all, just above the query keyboard where I was tapping before, there will be a 1Password button, which you can double tap, and then you'll be able to search through your 1Password items to find the login that you need.
Now you might be thinking, "Well, this is all very nice, but what about all the apps I have?" And the cool thing is that the same mechanism works in apps that you have as well, not just in Safari. When you encounter a login screen in any app, the same autofill suggestions should appear above the keyboard.
Earlier on in this webinar, for example, I was talking about logging into the Walmart website. Well, if I go to the Walmart app and I need to log in, the credentials that I've now saved for Walmart are going to work in the Walmart app as well. It's very slick. Let's take a quick look at the 1Password app, open 1Password. I've authenticated with face ID in 1Password.
If I go to the bottom of the screen... As you can hear, it's a very accessible app with three clear tabs at the bottom of the screen, and the home tab is customizable. If I go to the top of the screen, and now I can click right.
And if I go here, I can edit my profile. And there's Pulseway, which is a service that I use that 1Password creates one-time passwords for. And on and on, we can customize what we see here, including items that were recently added or updated. We can have favorites and items that are frequently used. You can customize what appears on this home tab.
There is also a 1Password app for Apple Watch that does have limited functionality, but the functionality it has is actually quite useful. You can add favorites to your 1Password for Apple Watch, for example, your Social Security number or other identifiers that you may need to refer to regularly, and they'll be there on your Apple Watch.
Obviously, it's important that your Apple Watch and your 1Password app on the watch are appropriately secure. I'm about to wrap up and ensure that there is sufficient time for questions or comments if you are using 1Password as well, but I'll just do a quick recap because we've covered an awful lot.
First, using a Password Manager is one of the most important things you can do for your online security. So congratulations on investing the time to learn some more about 1Password today. Unique, strong passwords for every account protects you from the most common types of attack. Constant vigilance. Sorry. Second, 1Password is a solid choice for screen reader users.
The Windows app, the browser extension, and the iOS app all work with JAWS, NVDA, Narrator, and Voiceover. The extensive keyboard shortcut support means you can accomplish everything without needing to use a mouse. Third, remember your account password. Store your emergency kit safely somewhere. Consider setting up a recovery code.
These are your safety nets. Fourth, use passkeys wherever they're available. Passwords are old technology. I can't wait to see the back of them. Switch to passkeys whenever you can. They are more secure than passwords and they're easier to use.
Fifth, check Watchtower regularly. It's your personal security advisor. It tells you about compromised passwords, weak passwords, and sites where you can upgrade to passkeys. One thing I haven't mentioned here I'll squeeze in at this point is that 1Password offers a great community service, and you don't have to be a 1Password user to take advantage of this.
It is a community directory of sites that support Passkeys. So if you want to switch to Passkeys wherever you can, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I cannot stress enough how good it is to do so. Head on over to passkeys.directory.
Yeah, that is a real website, passkeys.directory, and you can search for sites that are using passkeys and make sure that you're not missing out on one that is. For more information and support, let me talk about the key resources. The 1Password support site is support.1password.com.
This is an excellent resource. It has detailed articles on every feature. The keyboard shortcuts page alone is worth bookmarking, but a reminder, you can press control question mark from within most of the 1Password places and get a list of keyboard shortcuts from there.
If you want to get more interactive, there is a 1Password community forum, and that is at 1Password.community. Yeah, they've really nailed down getting these interesting domain names, haven't they? 1Password.community.
This is a great place to ask questions and get help from other users of 1Password and the 1Password staff engage on there as well. If you need to contact 1Password support directly, you can reach them through email. 1Password.com/contact-support will give you the information to initiate a support ticket.
So that is 1Password.com/contact-support. They offer 24/7 support. They're normally very responsive at getting back to you, and that is our look at 1Password.
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