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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0088CC" vlink="#0088CC"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Freedom Scientific Blog [mailto:donotreply@wordpress.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 2, 2018 9:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> mota1252@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [New post] Mozilla and Freedom Scientific working together on Firefox compatibility<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#DDDDDD'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Jonathan Mosen posted: "Last October, we recommended that our customers who use Mozilla's Firefox web browser migrate temporarily to its Extended Support Release (ESR). Beginning with version 57, Firefox adopted a multiprocess methodology, which drastically impacted screen reade" <o:p></o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;min-width: 320px'><tr><td style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='max-width:768.0pt;background:white'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#43A4D0'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#EFEFEF;border:none;border-bottom:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt'><tr><td style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.05in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px!important;margin:20px!important'><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646;font-weight:normal'>New post on </span><strong><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646'>Freedom Scientific Blog</span></strong><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#464646;font-weight:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2></td><td style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0088CC;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img width=32 height=32 style='width:.3333in;height:.3333in' id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D39C1A.7082F630" alt="Image removed by sender."></span><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0088CC'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white'><tr><td style='padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://blog.freedomscientific.com/?author=4"><span style='color:#2585B2;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=50 height=50 style='width:.5208in;height:.5208in' id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D39C1A.7082F630" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#555555'><a href="/mozilla-and-freedom-scientific-working-together-on-firefox-compatibility/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>Mozilla and Freedom Scientific working together on Firefox compatibility</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#888888'>by <a href="http://blog.freedomscientific.com/?author=4"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>Jonathan Mosen</span></u></a> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><div style='margin-top:12.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>Last October, we recommended that our customers who use Mozilla's Firefox web browser migrate temporarily to its Extended Support Release (ESR). Beginning with version 57, Firefox adopted a multiprocess methodology, which drastically impacted screen reader performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>This post updates you on the steps Mozilla and Freedom Scientific have been taking to make newer versions of Firefox accessible to JAWS users, while retaining functionality critical for power users who take advantage of advanced features only found in JAWS, such as Flexible Web.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>Engineers from Mozilla and Freedom Scientific have been exchanging ideas, resulting in modifications to both Firefox and JAWS. That exchange of ideas has led to the exchange of a lot of code. Our teams are sharing private builds of JAWS and Firefox multiple times per week, to verify and refine one another's changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>To further expedite this dialog and bring it to a conclusion, engineers from Freedom Scientific and Mozilla are meeting via conference call weekly. We are making excellent progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>We are confident that changes to both products will restore the browsing experience Firefox users have come to expect.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>Understandably, you want to know when you can get your hands on these changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>Our best estimate is that you'll see the changes we need to make in JAWS when we release the March JAWS update. By that time, our quality assurance team and private beta testing group will have put the changes through rigorous testing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>Mozilla estimates that the version of Firefox containing all the changes necessary on the Firefox side will be available in May.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>In the meantime, rest assured that the Firefox ESR release continues to receive security updates, and is still a safe, modern browser.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>For further information on JAWS and Firefox, be sure to catch the next episode of our official podcast when it is published, FSCast episode 149, where we hear from Jamie Teh of Mozilla.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'>We thank Mozilla for working with us so constructively and look forward to delivering these changes to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#444444'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='border-top:solid #EEEEEE 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #EEEEEE 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:11.0pt 0in 11.0pt 0in;margin-top:3.0pt;overflow:hidden'><p 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