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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Apr 1, 2010 5:27AM

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