What to change
Ask your supplier to contain a genuinely wide table in a clear usable area while preserving the readability of surrounding explanations and access to every column.
A worked example
Illustrative example
A visitor pans a comparison table horizontally while the page heading and explanatory text remain fitted to the screen above it.
Why this matters to your practice
Some tables genuinely need more width than a phone provides. The surrounding page should still remain comfortable to read. Ask your supplier to contain any sideways movement within the table and make the additional columns discoverable. Review the first and last columns with larger text, checking that row meaning is preserved. Simply hiding overflow can remove the very information someone wanted to compare, while widening every paragraph makes the entire page harder to use.
A practical review example
A visitor comparing several service attributes may need to move sideways within the table. Ask your supplier to demonstrate how they discover the additional columns, reach the last one and retain the row's meaning. Then read the paragraph beneath it. That ordinary text should still fit the screen. Review larger text and keyboard movement too. Simply hiding the extra width can conceal essential information, while allowing the table to widen every element makes the whole guide unnecessarily difficult to read.
How to check the result
Accept when all table content is reachable within an understandable local scroll area and ordinary page content retains its normal reading width.
A mistake to avoid
Clipping excess columns can make a screenshot look neat while removing the information people opened the table to compare.
Turn reading into a next step
Your action checklist
Work through these checks with your team or supplier. Tick the ones you have resolved and leave unknowns open.
Record what you know, what is still missing and the answer you need from your team or supplier.
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Further reading
These sources provide background for the topic. The practice examples and checklist are illustrative planning suggestions from Kay & Co.
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