[BRLTTY] Very sad news

Yannick PLASSIARD plassiardyannick at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 08:29:12 UTC 2026


Indeed, a very sad day for the community.

Yannick

> Le 29 janv. 2026 à 00:02, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Passing on the sad news from the slint mailing list.
> 
> Samuel
> 
> 
> 
> From: Philippe Delavalade <philippe.delavalade at xxxxxxxxx>
> To: slint at xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:18:02 +0100
> 
> Dear all.
> 
> I am very sad to inform everyone that our friend Didier died last week.
> 
> Early 2015, I asked on the slackware list if brltty could be added in the
> installer ; Didier answered promptly that he could do it on 
> slint. Afterwards, he worked hard so that slint became as accessible as
> possible for visually impaired people.
> 
> You all know that all these years, he tried and succeeded to answer as
> quickly as possible to our issues and questions.
> 
> He will be irreplaceable.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> -- 
> Philippe
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