id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	focuses	prnumber
43037	"Login error message ""Invalid username. Lost your password?"" is confusing"	afercia	SergeyBiryukov	"Error messages should always clearly describe the error to allow users determine what is wrong. This is also a WCAG requirement, as recently pointed out in #42985.

When entering an invalid username (or email), the returned error message is `Invalid username. Lost your password?` (or invalid email address), with a link pointing to the retrieve password page:

[[Image(https://cldup.com/sh4NF-07iV.png)]]

While this link makes perfectly sense when users enter a wrong ''password'', it doesn't when they enter a wrong ''username''. The error is a wrong username, why I should ever be offered a link to retrieve my password?

Introduced 9 years ago in [10960] see #9442, and then duplicated for the email login in [36617] see #9568."	defect (bug)	closed	normal	5.3	Login and Registration	2.8	normal	fixed	has-screenshots has-patch has-copy-review		ui, accessibility