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Introduction Recently, we received a Blog comment from a reader who was concerned about what he perceives to be the excessive cost of the technology we produce at Freedom Scientific. We were grateful to the customer for engaging with us. Rather than bury our response in a comment to an existing post, we want by …
Read More Extending Our Reach. Making JAWS More Available Outside the WorkplaceThose of us old enough to have watched TV ads from the late 70s might remember the commercial for Remington shavers, with the famous line, “I liked it so much, I bought the company”. Here’s a variation on that theme. At this time of year, many of us are at our most reflective, as we …
Read More Meet Chad Hays. He liked it so much, he bought a companyBackground Have you ever been frustrated by all the clutter you’re confronted with on web pages? The web seems to offer so much promise. You know the material you want is there somewhere, but it can be difficult sometimes to find that gold nugget of information you’re after. You know that if you could see …
Read More Flexible Web. Clear the clutter, harness the powerOverview On November 14, Mozilla is expected to release a new version of its Firefox web browser. Firefox 57 represents such a significant technical and performance change that it’s going to be known as Firefox Quantum. Mozilla and mainstream reviewers of the beta code agree, the browser is much faster and more memory efficient. …
Read More Important information for users of Mozilla FirefoxUpdate. Since this post was originally written, Microsoft has addressed the issues referred to promptly, and Edge is now responsive in all versions of JAWS supporting Edge. As we have blogged previously, Freedom Scientific and Microsoft have been collaborating closely to make Microsoft Edge accessible. If you are on Microsoft’s Windows Insider program, you …
Read More JAWS and the Windows 10 Fall Creators UpdateIt seems there is an international day for just about everything nowadays, from your favorite food to talking like a pirate. Perhaps, next year, we’ll take up the challenge of blogging like a pirate and seeing how effectively we can get the various text-to-speech engines JAWS supports to do it right. Since 2014, 30 September …
Read More Celebrating International Podcast DayAs we’ve blogged previously, we’ve been collaborating closely with Microsoft to deliver support for their latest browser, Microsoft Edge. If you’ve been running our JAWS 2018 beta, you’ve already been able to benefit from the work we’ve done to date. Since we’re publicly testing JAWS 2018 at the moment, which means users understand there may …
Read More Next week, Microsoft Edge support is coming to JAWS 18This post highlights a new JAWS 2018 feature we’ve been getting some terrific feedback about, our expanded optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities. For some time, JAWS has offered a feature which has helped many of us out immensely, the ability to perform optical character recognition on certain types of graphical images. Most of us have …
Read More Inside the JAWS 2018 betas: smarter, more powerful OCROver the coming weeks on our blog, we’ll be looking at some of the new features in the next version of our JAWS® screen reading software, version 2018. Thanks to everyone who has downloaded the public beta and put it through its paces. One of the most anticipated enhancements to this version of JAWS is …
Read More Inside the JAWS 2018 betas: Living on the EdgeIt’s my pleasure to welcome you to this, the first post on the new Freedom Scientific blog. We’re thrilled to be here and look forward to providing content that will encourage you to visit regularly. We have several means of staying in touch with you right now, including our Newsletter and the popular FSCast podcast. …
Read More Welcome to our new blog