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Sadly, we still live in a web world where we need to protect our sign-up, contact and registration forms with anti-spam technologies like the dreaded CAPTCHA.<\/p>\n
On paper, the Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart is a good idea. The technology helps\u00a0site owners differentiate between real humans and bots\/code that can read these types of codes and gain access to services, where they can most often be used for spamming and other nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n
If you ran a blog or forum, and need\u00a0to tell humans from bots, then CAPTCHAs are great. But for users,\u00a0CAPTCHAs are annoying, not to mention barely accessible.<\/p>\n
They are difficult to use, in any form. Whether typing in squiggly numbers, or picking out the kitty cat in a choice of photos, or dragging the logo into a box, they are hard for users to understand and successfully use.<\/p>\n
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I had an experience today with CAPTCHAs that left me stunned.<\/p>\n
My healthcare provider is transitioning to a new health charting and messaging system. In order to register for the site, I have to offer a large amount \u00a0of information about myself, including address, email, full name, birthdate, and most critically – my medical record number, unique to me.<\/p>\n
At the bottom of this form was a CAPTCHA.<\/p>\n
Why was there a CAPTCHA? Filling out this form didn’t grant me automatic access, it only registered me into the system. I assume once in there, my information would be checked and only then would I receive yet another piece of information – a registration code, I would use on yet another form.<\/p>\n
A good rule of thumb for CAPTCHAs: if you’re asking for information in any detail that you will use to compare to existing data to prove an identity, you don’t need a CAPTCHA.<\/p>\n
If you need only a small amount of information that is\u00a0difficult to verify, such as a social network, then by all means use a CAPTCHA.<\/p>\n
Creating bank account: no CAPTCHA.<\/p>\n
Creating forum account you plan to use to troll n00bs: CAPTCHA.<\/p>\n
Buying tickets to a concert? Annoying, but ok, CAPTCHA.<\/p>\n
Think about the users. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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