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Re: experiences with Taleo -- a system for career search

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From: McMorland, Gabriel
Date: Jul 15, 2013 8:49AM

I'm blind and recently used Taleo when I applied for a job with a major employer in our city. I am now discussing the failings of Taleo with their HR and EEOC departments.

I experienced several issues, including:
-mislabeled forms
-required fields are marked with an asterisk, but this is not conveyed through metadata sothat screen reader users have access to this information.
-I *think I was not receiving adequate text feedback from the form about errors that I needed to correct.

I might ignore such details on a shopping site or news blog, but employment applications are detail oriented and high-stakes. Personally, I find these design shortcomings unacceptable and careless.the HR department of