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From: E.J. Zufelt
Date: Apr 1, 2010 5:33AM

Good morning Jennison,

Can you explain a little more about what you mean by breaking linearization?

The JAWS screen-reader will linearize a page in the order that content appears in the DOM. Regardless how CSS is used to arrange content visually on the page, the order that a screen-reader interacts with the content will be the order in which the content is presented in the DOM.

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On 2010-04-01, at 6:27 AM, Jennison Mark Asuncion 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
>