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From: Howard Kramer
Date: Dec 12, 2019 1:38PM

I'm not sure this has been discussed on the ATHEN or WebAIM lists but I saw
this post by Richard Ladner about the passing of Jim Thatcher and thought I
would share it since it was such as nice tribute. Jim came to AHG a few
times and I saw him regularly up to a few years ago at CSUN and other
conferences. Definitely a great guy and a pioneer in the field of
accessibility.

-Howard

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From: Richard Ladner < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 10:56 AM
Subject: Jim Thatcher has died
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >


*Jim Thatcher passed away on December 7, 2019 at the age of 83.*

He was the first recipient of the SIGACCESS Outstanding Contribution Award
<https://www.sigaccess.org/2008/04/jim-thatcher-outstanding-contribution-recipient-2008/>
in 2008.

While working for IBM he developed the first screen readers for personal
computers.

His website <https://jimthatcher.com/>is being maintained by Knowbility.

He was a very good man.

Richard E. Ladner
Professor Emeritus
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington


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Regards,
Howard

Howard Kramer
Conference Coordinator
Accessing Higher Ground
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cell: 720-351-8668

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