CHISEL Colleagues - CHISEL Housing

Shareholders - CHISEL Housing

Information for Residents - CHISEL Housing

Policies and Communications - CHISEL Housing

About Us - CHISEL Housing

Home - CHISEL Housing

Anti-Social Behaviour - CHISEL Housing

Annual Reports and Financial Statements - CHISEL Housing

Become a Tenant - CHISEL Housing

contact - CHISEL Housing

Lists (e.g., `<ul>` or `<ol>`) should only contain list items (`<li>`) as a direct descendant 
to ensure that screen readers can accurately report the amount of items contained in the list. 

## Example

In the following example, some screen readers would say this list has two items, instead of 
four: 

```html
<ul>
    <div class="some_class">
        <li>Example 1</li>
    </div>
    <div class="some_other_class">
        <li>Example 2</li>
        <li>Example 3</li>
        <li>Example 4</li>
    </div>
</ul>
```

To fix this, you would need to remove the `<div class="some_class">` and 
`<div class="some_other_class>` elements and ensure only `<li>` list items remain.

## Further reading

The [formal specification for the list element](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ul)
shows what is and is not permitted inside an `<ul>` and `<ol>`.

See [Technique H88](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H88.html) for more information.

list-not-following-semantics

August 2025

July 2025

Chisel Limited

	Title / URL	Issues
	CHISEL Colleagues - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/staff/	8
	Shareholders - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/about-us/shareholders/	8
	Information for Residents - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/tenants-information/	8
	Policies and Communications - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/policies-and-communications/	8
	About Us - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/about-us/	8
	Home - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/	8
	Anti-Social Behaviour - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/tenancy/antisocial-behaviour/	8
	Annual Reports and Financial Statements - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/about-us/annual-reports/	8
	Become a Tenant - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/tenancy/become-a-tenant/	8
	contact - CHISEL Housingwww.chisel.org.uk/contact/	8

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

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