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Re: float:right and screen reader support

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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Apr 1, 2010 5:36AM

hi jennison,

in what way doesn't it work?
can you provide an example?

my understanding is that if , for example, you have two pieces of
content: A & B in the DOM. If A is floated to the right of B, so
visually it is displayed as B & A then AT will generally ignore the
float and announce the content as it is in the DOM: A & B.

regards
stevef

On 1 April 2010 11:27, Jennison Mark Asuncion
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been asked about the use of the CSS property float:right.
> Specifically, it doesn't seem to work, particularly with the JAWS screen
> reader, and as a result, it breaks linearization on pages where
> this property is being implemented.
>
> I guess the first question is, is this issue isolated to JAWS and it works
> with other screen readers? Has anyone come up with a work around and/or is
> there another way to achieve the same result using a property other than
> float?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Jennison
>
>
> Jennison Asuncion
> Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network http://www.adaptech.org
> LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennison
>