I have no application form and I must rant

here's another thought. you could make the case that the .doc format is
inaccessible under the terms of the ADA (in my case, I know I can). also,
their policy is definitely not up with the times. because of accessibility
issues, they are required to provide a copy of the application upon request
in whatever format is requested (at least in my case, being blind, this is
factual).

still, you might want to point this out to them, or bump it up the chain and
see who falls when its yanked hard.

Technomage

On Thursday 30 January 2003 03:06 pm, you wrote:
> I know this topic came up at the county meeting, but I'm having a
> problem with proprietary document formats being used by MCCCD. They have
> several faculty positions listed, and I would like to apply for them,
> but the application on the website is in .doc format, and it is
> thoroughly macro-ridden, so I can't open it in either OpenOffice or
> Abiword without it being mangled.
>
> I asked Employee Services if they could email me an .html or .rtf
> version, and they say it goes against policy to email applications (even
> blank ones -- go figure.)
>
> Three of these positions close tomorrow, which means I can't apply for
> them because I can't get the form by then. They do have an online
> application form, but if I remember right (I haven't looked at it in a
> while) that thing is a nightmare. It looks like I'll have to just try to
> do it that way, and I'll have to apply for the other positions next week
> between classes on one of the MS machines at PC. Dammit.
>
> OK, rant over. Any other thoughts on this?
>
> -Michelle

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