I’m posting this message here to let everyone know that in the coming days we will lose our friend and colleague, Ed Gray. Ed has been a key figure at avid and, before that, Digidesign, for some 30 years. Ed was director of third-party partnering so he worked with all of the plug-in developers and auxiliary software products.
For many years, Ed has faced serious health challenges which stemmed mostly from diabetes. He started losing his vision about 20 years ago and has had essentially no useable sight for the last 10 years. His diabetes lead to kidney failure as well as a recent amputation of one leg just below the knee. Despite dialysis treatments, his condition has continued to worsen. Most recently, he was enduring 3 treatments per week but continued to decline. He recently decided to stop his treatments. Doctors gave him about a week or so to live. He’s still with us but doesn’t have long at all. when I spoke with him only 2 weeks ago, he hadn’t made his decision yet. As of a few days ago, he shared the news with friends and family. At this point, the community at large has learned of his situation. I’ve been in touch with him over the weekend and he asked me to share the news with blind Pro Tools users. His most recent message read: “Slau, thank you for sending this wonderful note. It is nice to hear from you. I will be around for a few days next week and try to reach out to some of the gang but I hope you'll pass on word to the group of what is happening and tell them that I intentionally enjoyed working with them. I know that you and I have done a lot to open the door to visually impaired users to ProTools, and that the work, and the best moments by far are still yet to come. Love, ed.” We’ll sorely miss him but will continue to work and honor his legacy as a champion of accessibility. Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ptaccess/9474D20F-F7CF-47BC-BB7D-DAB02DE506EE%40gmail.com.
