Accessibility in BGP Wiki

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What to do when you encounter a large/wide table?

Example of a long and wide table.
Example of a long and wide table.

Some pages of the wiki includes tables to organise and display data relevant to the particular section and topic. Some of the tables incorporate a large amount of interrelated data. A reader who are quickly glancing often find it obstructing the flow of skimming the contents as some table would require long scrolls to get past it. Also, some table can be have many columns, resulting in a wide table that may not fit into the screen. Such cases are marked with a notice above the table so that readers are aware of how to navigate in or around the table.

Long tables

Long tables are skipped via pressing Collapse link beside the name of the table.

Wide tables

Navigating inside a wide tables can be done in the following ways:

  1. If you are visiting using a computer:
    • You click inside the table, and then use left (←) and right (→) arrow keys on the keyboard to move the table left and right
    • Or, you can find a scroll bar below the table, click on the white space of the scroll bar or click and move the grey portion of the scroll bar to move the table left and right.
  2. If you are visiting from a phone, tablet, and touch enabled screen, you can press and swipe on the table to move the table left and right,