Thank you Anne for sharing. Condolences to David's family.
Janet Schultz
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 5:13 PM Anne Ronco <anne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Duxbury Community,
This week brings sad news for our Duxbury Systems family. Our colleague,
David Holladay, passed away in a hospital on Thursday, February 15th,
following an accident at home that morning. David was a cancer survivor and
valiantly battled multiple medical problems over his last five years.
David was an early innovator in braille software. Together, he and his
wife, Caryn Navy, founded Raised Dot Computing (later Braille Planet) in
1981. David’s early work on Apple II computers was groundbreaking in
support of accessibility for blind users through speech and production of
braille and of print from braille input. He went on to support production
of print math from Nemeth Code mathematics braille. Later work at Raised
Dot Computing culminated in the introduction of MegaDots, an innovative
product with unparalleled support for braille formats.
David and Caryn joined Duxbury Systems in 1999 and have been part of the
family ever since. David’s work at Duxbury focused largely on extending the
reach of DBT to many, many countries and languages around the world. Though
confined to bed over the last several years of his life, David’s passion
for braille wouldn’t allow him to rest. He was working until his very last
day.
It is our belief that the larger braille world will miss David as much as
we do here at Duxbury.
*****
David's funeral will be at Congregation Shalom in Chelmsford Massachusetts
at noon Eastern Standard Time on Monday, with burial at 1 PM at Beth El
Cemetery in Chelmsford.
We’ll post a link for live streaming the service when we receive it.
