Dear Norm,

I am so sorry to hear of your loss.

I wanted to thank you, as well, for having such a wonderful working 
partnership with Dick that you have been able to share it with the 
whole community and together help move the field of information 
accessibility ahead by leaps and bounds.

I know a lot of us will be holding you, and Dick's family, in our hearts.

Take care,

- Judy

At 07:48 AM 7/9/2008 -0700, Prof Norm Coombs wrote:
>Hello EASI friends and colleagues:
>
>Please forgive the duplicate postings, but I know you all will want 
>to know that Dick died yesterday.  This leaves a giant hole in the 
>life of EASI and in my life as well.  Dick is my best friend.
>
>Dick was diagnosed with cancer in early April, if I recall.  Even 
>since then he had many good days when he was back on the 
>Internet.  These were among his happiest days the last 3 months as 
>working and helping others were the things that filled his life with joy.
>
>Dick could learn new software like no one I know.  He loved to take 
>its technical confusions and often opaque manuals and make those 
>technology items easy for people to understand.  He also had a 
>contagious optimism and sense of humor.  He was a man of integrity 
>and never was satisfied to do a mediocre job.
>
>God has blessed me to have Dick as a best friend and working buddy.
>
>I ask you all to remember his family at this time.
>
>You can read about Dick's bout with Cancer at the Care Page from the 
>Mayo Clinic at:
>http://www.carepages.com/mayoclinic
>You will need to register.  After which search for his page.  The 
>name of the page is DicksJourney and note that is one word with no 
>punctuation and does have a capital D and a capital J
>
>If you want to contact Dick's wife, Carol, the address is:
>310 Micheels Ln APT 1
>Menomonie, WI 54751
>
>You can also leave a message on the Care Page message Board.
>
>Norm Coombs
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>I want to thank you all for your support of Dick's and my work.

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Judy Brewer    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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