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WP:Accessibility contains some good advice, but as with all of Wikipedia, it is a work in progress, and capable of improvement. The section Tables suggests ways in which tables can be improved, but I feel it could go further. I'll try to collect some thoughts here. For anyone who would like to hear what Wikipedia articles sound like to visually impaired readers, the Opera browser is free and has a built-in screen reader that merely needs to be enabled. For those like me who use Firefox routinely, there is an add-on called CLC-Firevox that I've used successfully. It can be quite an eye-opener to hear how some of our articles sound.