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Re: JAWS and relative positioning

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From: Michael Stenitzer
Date: May 31, 2006 2:10AM


On 5/31/06, Stephane Deschamps < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> <quote who="Steven Faulkner">
> >
> > In JAWS 6.10 a new feature was added for JAWS support of style sheets:
> >
> >>From the JAWS documentation:
> >
> > "Control How JAWS Uses Style Sheets
[...]
>
> Thanks for the info. The sad thing is that I'm not too much in favour of
> telling the visitors straight away "hey, this site uses advanced CSS, and
> since you're using a relatively new version of JAWS you should press Ins+V
> otherwise this site will be unusable".
>
> I really find it weird. I'm beginning to consider this as a reportable
> bug, and I'll probably end up writing to the JAWS people asking for
> complementary info.
>

has anybody on this list experienced similar problems? are there
general rules when this problem might occur?

this might be a real set-back for advanced accessible css.

/michael

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