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Multi-Factor Authentication for people without a Smart Phone?
Come on Microsoft, my client is blind and uses voice for everything. Please why cram authenticators down everyone's throat? I understand the importance of two factor.
PLEASE ALLOW SKIPPING TO A PHONE CALL, TEXT, ALT EMAIL or SECRET PASSWORD like app password to allow passage through the Monty Python MFA Troll Bridge.
The poor guy CANNOT SEE the Q-Code, much less enter the numbers if sent to an app. He can HEAR the codes if we can set it up for a phone call, or hear his alternate email when the PC or phone reads it to him. I can turn off MFA in Azure, but rather not.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, RickkeeC! I'm not blind in eyes, but my eyes are not great. Plus I don't have a smartphone with a line like a regular phone. I have 2 but they are not hooked up as I am still very green and use landline lol. I prefer alternate email to prove I am who I am. I think it should continue to be an option as not everyone has or wants to have a cellphone. Maybe I will in the future, I'm just saying I don't have it now. I also understand the importance of 2FA. So far I've been able to skip the step trying to use my password with my bank, but I realize my time is short and at some point they will not allow me to skip the step and will have to provide a cell number which I do not have. I guess then I may not be going to my bank online anymore. Shame, because isn't it supposed to be keeping hackers out of MY account?! - not keeping ME out of my OWN bank account!