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Re: [press@debian.org: Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop]



Hi,

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 05:04:21PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > As this is now public, I'd like to thank Frans here for his strong
> > involvment in discussions between debian-boot and debian-accessibility
> > around 2008 which ended up with the accessibility support we currently
> > have in the Debian Installer (as well as future software speech
> > synthesis which I unfortunately didn't have the time to push for
> > Squeeze).
> 
> I fully support Samuel's acknowledgment. This effort is a major contribution
> to the accessibility of Debian, making it one of the few distributions that
> supports braille output in the installer (by default and with no need for user
> intervention, if one has a USB braille device).
> 
> I have personally benefited from this work, and I know that I am not alone in
> this regard.

agreed, I can't wait for software speech in the installer, I don't have a
braille display.

Trev

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