diff --git a/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php b/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php
index 9f9fbd5..0ef9877 100644
--- a/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php
+++ b/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ class Configuration implements ConfigurationInterface
                 ->scalarNode('interpolation')->defaultValue(true)->end()
                 ->arrayNode('text_color')->prototype('scalar')->end()->end()
                 ->arrayNode('background_color')->prototype('scalar')->end()->end()
+                ->scalarNode('disabled')->defaultValue(false)->end()
             ->end()
         ;
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9a81582..1febba6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ You can define the following configuration options globally or on the CaptchaTyp
 
 * **width**: the width of the captcha image (default=120)
 * **height**: the height of the captcha image (default=40)
+* **disabled**: disable globally the CAPTCHAs (can be useful in dev environment), it will
+  still appear but won't be editable and won't be checked
 * **length**: the length of the captcha (number of chars, default 5)
 * **quality**: jpeg quality of captchas (default=15)
 * **charset**: the charset used for code generation (default=abcdefhjkmnprstuvwxyz23456789)