Poetic Obituaries: [John] Slatin worked with the University

in some capacity for nearly 30 years. He started his career in 1979 as a poetry professor.

He was the founder and director of the Accessibility Institute at UT, which helped the University make 45 percent of its top 407 Web pages disability friendly, according to the institute's Web site. After he was diagnosed with the hereditary condition retinitis pigmentosa, he became fully blind by the late 1970s.

from The Daily Texan: Slatin made Web pages accessible

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