Best Practices

• Use tables for tabular content only, not for formatting
• Use the Pressbooks table settings to set the ‘header row’
• Use clear headers
• read the table left to right and top to bottom
• Avoid merged cells
• caption tables with a main takeaway or include a summary if the table is very long or complex

Learn more about creating accessible tables in Pressbook in the BC Campus Accessibility Toolkit.

Examples