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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><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> tech-vi@groups.io <tech-vi@groups.io> <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Goldfield<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 16, 2022 9:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> List <tech-vi@groups.io><br><b>Subject:</b> [tech-vi Announce List] Significant Improvements for Screen Readers Now in Nightly Firefox - Mozilla Accessibility<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/accessibility/significant-improvements-for-screen-readers-now-in-nightly-firefox/">https://blog.mozilla.org/accessibility/significant-improvements-for-screen-readers-now-in-nightly-firefox/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id=article><div><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:14.55pt'><span style='font-size:25.5pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif'>Significant Improvements for Screen Readers Now in Nightly Firefox<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style='margin-bottom:17.4pt;text-align:start;max-width:100%'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif'><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/accessibility/author/asamozillacom/" title="Posts by Asa Dotzler"><span style='color:#416ED2'>Asa Dotzler</span></a>November 15, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif'>A couple of months ago, we shared an <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/accessibility/cache-the-world-opt-in-preview/"><span style='color:#416ED2'>update</span></a> on our <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/CacheTheWorld"><span style='color:#416ED2'>Cache the World project</span></a>, covering the ongoing re-write of the Firefox accessibility engine. The project aims to improve Firefox’s overall performance for users of assistive technologies (ATs) like screen readers and to reduce crashes and hangs. It will also make the accessibility engine easier to maintain and simplify adding new features going forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif'>In our last post, we provided instructions for enabling the new engine in Firefox Nightly by changing an experimental setting and encouraged adventurous Windows OS users to opt in and try it out. Thanks to your testing and feedback, and further work by the engineering team, the new Firefox accessibility engine is now solid enough that we have enabled it for all Firefox Nightly users, starting with the Nightly build on November 15th (id: 20221115095444 or newer). Unless you’ve changed Firefox’s update settings, it will attempt to automatically update twice per day, but you can perhaps speed that up by manually checking for updates. To do that, navigate to the Firefox menu, then to Help, and then to About Nightly. Alternatively, open the Help menu from the Windows menu bar and choose About Nightly. That will do an update check; if an update is available Firefox will download it. After a restart to finish the update, Firefox will be using the new accessibility engine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif'>We’ve enabled this in Nightly so that we can gather more feedback, both from AT users, as well as from non-AT users or users who may not know Firefox’s accessibility engine has been activated due to an OS feature or third party application. We believe that the experience for most Nightly screen reader users will be a significant improvement over the old engine, as many of you have told us after opting in to the Nightly preview. As well as direct feedback we receive, enabling it by default in Nightly will allow us to gather automatic feedback via crash reports. We will also be receiving feedback from a larger group of users with more diverse use cases which will help us move closer to a beta release and an eventual release to the full Firefox audience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:18.0pt;max-width:100%'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font",serif'>If you experience slow-downs, more frequent crashes, or missing capabilities that prevent you from using Firefox Nightly as you normally would, you can revert to the old accessibility engine by going to Firefox Settings, entering accessibility cache into the search box, tabbing to the Accessibility cache check box and turning it off. After a restart, you’ll be back on the old engine. If this does become necessary or you have any other feedback to offer, please <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?assigned_to=nobody%40mozilla.org&bug_ignored=0&bug_severity=--&bug_status=NEW&bug_type=defect&cf_a11y_review_project_flag=---&cf_fx_iteration=---&cf_fx_points=---&cf_performance=---&cf_status_firefox103=---&cf_status_firefox104=---&cf_status_firefox105=---&cf_status_firefox_esr102=---&cf_status_firefox_esr91=---&cf_status_thunderbird_esr102=---&cf_status_thunderbird_esr91=---&cf_tracking_firefox103=---&cf_tracking_firefox104=---&cf_tracking_firefox105=---&cf_tracking_firefox_esr102=---&cf_tracking_firefox_esr91=---&cf_tracking_firefox_relnote=---&cf_tracking_thunderbird_esr102=---&cf_tracking_thunderbird_esr91=---&cf_webcompat_priority=---&component=Disability%20Access%20APIs&contenttypemethod=list&contenttypeselection=text%2Fplain&defined_groups=1&filed_via=standard_form&flag_type-203=X&flag_type-37=X&flag_type-41=X&flag_type-607=X&flag_type-721=X&flag_type-737=X&flag_type-787=X&flag_type-799=X&flag_type-800=X&flag_type-803=X&flag_type-846=X&flag_type-855=X&flag_type-863=X&flag_type-864=X&flag_type-930=X&flag_type-936=X&flag_type-937=X&flag_type-947=X&flag_type-952=X&form_name=enter_bug&maketemplate=Remember%20values%20as%20bookmarkable%20template&op_sys=Unspecified&priority=--&product=Core&rep_platform=Unspecified&target_milestone=---&version=unspecified"><span style='color:#416ED2'>file a Bugzilla report</span></a> or stop in at our <a href="https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#accessibility:mozilla.org"><span style='color:#416ED2'>Matrix chat</span></a> and let us know.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> David Goldfield <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Assistive Technology Specialist<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Feel free to visit my Web site<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://WWW.DavidGoldfield.info">WWW.DavidGoldfield.info</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:white'>_._,_._,_<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal>Groups.io Links:<o:p></o:p></p><p>You receive all messages sent to this group. <o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="https://groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/2964" target="_blank">View/Reply Online (#2964)</a> | <a href="mailto:tech-vi@groups.io?subject=Re:%20%5Btech-vi%20Announce%20List%5D%20Significant%20Improvements%20for%20Screen%20Readers%20Now%20in%20Nightly%20Firefox%20-%20Mozilla%20Accessibility" target="_blank">Reply To Group</a> | <a href="mailto:david.goldfield@outlook.com?subject=Private:%20Re:%20%5Btech-vi%20Announce%20List%5D%20Significant%20Improvements%20for%20Screen%20Readers%20Now%20in%20Nightly%20Firefox%20-%20Mozilla%20Accessibility" target="_blank">Reply To Sender</a> | <a href="https://groups.io/mt/95067511/318502" target="_blank">Mute This Topic</a> | <a href="https://groups.io/g/tech-vi/post">New Topic</a><br><a href="https://groups.io/g/tech-vi/editsub/318502">Your Subscription</a> | <a href="mailto:tech-vi+owner@groups.io">Contact Group Owner</a> | <a href="https://groups.io/g/tech-vi/leave/11013341/318502/1820159643/xyzzy">Unsubscribe</a> [floza58@bellsouth.net]<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:white'>_._,_._,_<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>