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From: Geof Collis
Date: Apr 1, 2010 6:33AM

Hi Jennison

I have never come across this problem. I use floats left and right on
all of my sites and they do just what they are supposed to and I'm a JAWS user.

cheers

Geof

At 06:27 AM 4/1/2010, you 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
>