--- title: Just Let Me Write Digits | daily.dev description: A developer shares their experience trying to register for AGOV, the Swiss government login system, and being unable to enter a 6-digit email verification... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/just-let-me-write-digits-kvgym5lfu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Just Let Me Write Digits | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares their experience trying to register for AGOV, the Swiss government login system, and being unable to enter a 6-digit email verification... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/just-let-me-write-digits-kvgym5lfu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kVGYM5lfu.png og:image:alt: Just Let Me Write Digits og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Just Let Me Write Digits **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 13 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares their experience trying to register for AGOV, the Swiss government login system, and being unable to enter a 6-digit email verification code. After testing across 6 browser/OS combinations and being unable to contact support (which required passing the same broken form), they dug into the minified JavaScript source. The root cause: the verification code input intercepts keystrokes and explicitly blocks the Shift key — which on AZERTY French keyboards is required to type digits. The post includes a postmortem with lessons about resilient UI design, decoupling form logic from the DOM, having multiple support channels, and publishing source code before mandating its use. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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