By Shawn ODonnell on 9/13/2012 5:56 PM
MataiNet shares results of its evaluation of website accessibility for one state's aging and disability agencies, and makes observations about a recent report to the President and Congress. |
By Shawn ODonnell on 6/23/2012 12:15 PM
What does "accessible website" mean, and how does it impact by organization? Well, unless you required (and verified) your website developer and content creation staff to follow accessibility standards and best practices, people with disabilities will not be able to access your information. And now, the U.S. Department of Justice is ramping up efforts to litigate against organizations that practice this form of "discrimination". |
By Shawn ODonnell on 10/14/2011 6:38 AM
MataiNet is nearly ready to release an innovative service to help people receive services safely - and increase opportunity for individuals with skills and time to offer services. |
By Shawn ODonnell on 2/1/2010 12:06 PM
MataiNet has advocated strongly that our industry is not living up to ethical and professional standards concerning website design. Not to get on a soap box here, but this article discusses the industry's absurd failure to make online information services equally available to older adults and people with disabilities. |
By Shawn ODonnell on 11/20/2009 8:18 PM
MataiNet recently released an online Aging and Disability Resource Center for the state of Hawaii which is the first such system built entirely on open source content management software. The cost of the DotNetNuke community platform is zero, and 1,000s of software modules are available for it from developers all over the world - most of them for 10s of dollars. More importantly, ADRCHawaii is fully compliant with industry standards for XHTML and CSS, and adheres to best design practices for usability and accessibility guidelines of WAI. |
By Shawn ODonnell on 7/20/2009 11:37 AM
Cool healthcare educational tool in the form of an animated teaching agent for hospital discharge planning using data from the electronic medical record system. |
By Shawn ODonnell on 3/1/2009 12:25 PM
At the risk of making a political stand (which this is not) we express our Social Services Mesh concept for a potentially better way to turn around the economy, and perhaps a better way for us all to manage some difficult situations... |
By Shawn ODonnell on 2/15/2008 4:05 PM
MataiNet reveals its ground-breaking "SiteMax3.0" concept for a service to leverage the power of video on the Internet for referrals, ratings, reviews, and how-to's. |
By Shawn ODonnell on 2/8/2008 3:50 PM
On this date MataiNet was incorporated and our initial website created. |