Was reading a talk about the 200th anniversary of Braille (thanks Jonathan Mosen) and ...

2024-05-26 18:39:55

Was reading a talk about the 200th anniversary of Braille (thanks Jonathan Mosen (npub17ge…4etg)) and he noted the passing of David Holladay who wrote early Braille translator software to help support his wife, Caryn Navy, a blind math professor when they were students at MIT.

He had a newsletter (about accessible computing) which was also published on cassette.

He continued to write and work on Braille software for his entire life, now with Wikipedia page!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Holladay

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