Captcha and Usability

Captcha is a necessary evil we put up with on the Internet. I did a little digging and found there is much to learn about it.

Image of captcha formI wrote about Capthca for my latest installment at SearchEngineLand – Recent Findings On Captcha & The User Experience

The purpose of Captcha is to find a way to prove that you’re a human being and not a computer with abuse on its agenda. However humble and helpful the original goal, today there is software available to bypass Captcha’s, as well as humans paid to solve Captcha for companies who wish to do harm.

About cre8pc

Kim Krause Berg’s long background in web design, SEO and usability includes software application functional and user interface testing, accessibility, information architecture and persuasive design. She shared her passion for Usability and SEO through her site and private consulting at Cre8pc for 17 years. Kim founded Cre8asiteforums in 1998. In the fall of 2012 she sold her forums to Internet Marketing Ninjas and retired from private consulting to join their Executive Management team where she continues her work in usability testing, customer experience and conversions design. My Online Course: Web Site Usability 101 Member: American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Information Architecture Institute Usability Professionals Association (UPA)
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