Text readers read the entire page from top left to bottom right, line by line. This means text readers may not work properly with tables. Instead of showing all the text in a cell, it will read the first line in all the cells in a row, then the second line, etc. The Lynx web browser ignores most table commands. This gets around the problem in the above point, because all the text in the first column in a row is displayed, then all the text in the second column, etc.
Lynx runs on terminals that always uses a mono-spaced font.
Normally the non-breaking space is not obvious in tables in graphical browsers, but can help a lot to line up table columns in Lynx. Creative use of paragraph breaks at the end of table cells, etc. can also help make tables look better in Lynx. Be sure to check your tables using Lynx. This is especially useful for non-visual users. Please send comments about this course to Kevin.