Environmental Services | Aitkin County, MN

Commissioners | Aitkin County, MN

Aitkin County, MN | Home

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Residents | Aitkin County, MN

Courts | Aitkin County, MN

2025 Board Meetings Calendar | Aitkin County, MN

Information Technology | Aitkin County, MN

Community Corrections | Aitkin County, MN

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

December 2025

November 2025

Aitkin County, Minnesota

Title / URL	Issues
Environmental Services \| Aitkin County, MNwww.co.aitkin.mn.us/departments/env/	20
Commissioners \| Aitkin County, MNwww.co.aitkin.mn.us/commissioners/	13
Aitkin County, MN \| Homeco.aitkin.mn.us/	10
Aitkin County, MN \| Homewww.co.aitkin.mn.us/	10
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.co.aitkin.mn.us/	10
Residents \| Aitkin County, MNwww.co.aitkin.mn.us/residents/	9
Courts \| Aitkin County, MNwww.co.aitkin.mn.us/departments/court/	8
2025 Board Meetings Calendar \| Aitkin County, MNwww.co.aitkin.mn.us/board/2025/	8
Information Technology \| Aitkin County, MNwww.co.aitkin.mn.us/departments/it/	8
Community Corrections \| Aitkin County, MNwww.co.aitkin.mn.us/departments/cc/	8

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

Aitkin County, Minnesota

Where this issue has occurred