Are inline style bad for screen readers?

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Published on 2010-04-07T05:26:00Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 5:33 UTC
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accessibility

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screen-readers

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w3c-validation

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<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffd700">Background color</span>

How screen reader handle inline css ? is there any other cons of inline CSS except css management?

Inline styles are valid also . i tested with W3C Validator and with XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype?

<p><span style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Left indent</span></p>

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