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I'm very pleased to announce that Cache the World, our re-architecture of the Firefox accessibility engine to improve performance, reliability and correctness, is now enabled by default on all platforms with today's release of Firefox 113. blog.mozilla.org/accessibility… #accessibility #a11y

Firefox 113 Significantly Boosts Accessibility Performance - Mozilla Accessibility

About 5 years ago Mozilla shipped Firefox Quantum, an upgrade that included significant performance improvements for most Firefox users. Unfortunately, Firefox Quantum didn’t improve performance for people who use screen … Read more
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Dickson Tan

This makes a huge difference, thanks for making this happen. This is a very strong case for using Firefox for screen readers users.

Btw, I've been seeing an intermittent bug where text in edit boxes isn't read and NVDA just says blank when arrowing through an edit field, I'm on Firefox 114b2 and have the cache enabled. Seen while composing a Slack message and a GitHub comment. Wondering if its a potential regression?

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