add missing acknowledgment (#1978) (#1980)

(cherry picked from commit 6adc229)

Co-authored-by: Carlos Scheidegger <285675+cscheid@users.noreply.github.com>

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docs/blog/posts/2026-03-24-1.9-release/index.qmd

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 ## Acknowledgements
 
-We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by opening issues and pull requests:
+One of the early proposals for PDF accessibility and alt text in the LaTeX ecosystem was provided to us by [Sam Schiano](https://github.com/Schiano-NOAA) and [Sophie Breitbart](https://github.com/sbreitbart-NOAA). We want to thank them for bringing into our attention the approach they used in their [`{asar}` R package](https://nmfs-ost.github.io/asar/), which influenced some of our design.
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+In addition, we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by opening issues and pull requests:
 
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