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To help explain the issue encountered by screen reader users with poorly designed tables we have linked to the WebAIM page about Creating Accessible Tables where the phrase "Basement Toilets must flush up" has been used but the screen reader goes across the columns and reads the same content from left to right and then down one row and across again so it becomes "Basement up toilets flush must." In this case the words all need to be in the top row for easy reading.

"...It very rarely happens, but there have been times, like for the last year we had presentations we had to do for French. Otherwise we used to have to produce a sheet that went with the presentation, like a document, and I used to have to get that e-mailed to me. Now if there were tables in that, you had to set them out in a very standard way, you couldn’t have a non-standard table, one of those funny shaped things, you’d have to have just a plain table. If you’d pulled it off a website, well fine, but then edit it, because otherwise I can’t read it."