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Re: float:right and screen reader support

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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Apr 1, 2010 7:03AM

Hello,

Steve, you described the situation perfectly. Can I assume there is no way
to work around this given this is controlled in the DOM?

Jennison


On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Steven Faulkner wrote:

> 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
>>