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According to ZDNet, an increasing number of companies are preventing Mac browsers from accessing their online job listings and/or shutting them out of the online application process because the underlying software on their website only works with Windows. American Express, Target and Sears are just a few of the companies that use BrassRing‘s software to manage their online job sites and it’s not Mac-friendly at all. "However, we are seeing a gradual increase in demand," said BrassRing spokesman Doug Jensen. "Therefore, BrassRing Enterprise 8, which is coming out in December, will be Firefox-compatible to support Mac users." Now… was that really so hard?
It’s inexcusable in my book for any company, especially a Fortune 100 company like Amex, to make essential online resources off-limits to an only-growing population of Mac users. Sure, there are ways around the "no Macs allowed" barriers, but there shouldn’t have to be. An online job bank should be barrier-free to anyone and everyone who wants to access it and it’s probably just lazy, stubborn or inexperienced programmers that are responsible for this problem to begin with. Perhaps if more Mac users could access those job boards they could apply for those programmers’ jobs and rectify these problems a lot faster!
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Originally posted by Laurie A. Duncan from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)