Public Consultation | Berri Barmera Council

Discover our District | Berri Barmera Council

Rates | Berri Barmera Council

Register of Salaries | Berri Barmera Council

Meetings Information | Berri Barmera Council

Library Relocation Media Release | Berri Barmera Council

404 Page Not Found | Berri Barmera Council

Change of Address | Berri Barmera Council

Contact | Berri Barmera Council

Employment | Berri Barmera Council

Lists of related items should be written [semantically](https://html.com/semantic-markup/) as a 
list.

Usually this means rewriting these to use the `<ul>` or `<ol>` tags.

This allows assistive technologies to more easily navigate from item to
item, or past entire groups of links if the user wants to. 

## Examples 

### Navigation

This navigation:

```html
<a href="/about">About us</a>
<a href="/products">Products</a>
<a href="/contact">Contact us</a>
```

Should be rewritten as a list:

```html
<ul>
  <li><a href="/about">About us</a></li>
  <li><a href="/products">Products</a></li>
  <li><a href="/contact">Contact us</a></li>
</ul>
```

### Tables for content

This single-column table is redundant. There is no
value in placing the content in a table, which makes
it harder for screen reader users to interpret and interact
with.

```html
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Banana
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Apple
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Pear
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
```

Should be rewritten as a list:

```html
<ul>
  <li>Banana</li>
  <li>Apple</li>
  <li>Pear</li>
</ul>
```

## Justification

Users of assistive technologies, like screen readers, can skip an entire
list in one step. In some cases, they can even search inside a list. 

These aids are not available where links are written outside a list. 
Failing to use lists correctly can force users to have to step through
hundreds of items one at a time.

## Methodology

1. Any single-column tables are automatically considered 
   redundant lists. 
2. For non-table elements, recursively work down the page looking inside
   each element for links separated by minimal amounts of non-link text. 
   If the non-link text is below 30 characters 
   in length, we assume we're inside content that should be a list.
   Some exceptions are made, e.g. the presence of an `<hr>` would break
   out of the list.

## More information

See [Technique
H48](https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20161007/H48) for
details.

mark-navigation-section-as-list

June 2024

May 2024

Berri Barmera Council

Title / URL	Issues
Public Consultation \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/documents-and-forms/public-consultation	1
Discover our District \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/discover-our-district	1
Rates \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/your-council/rates	1
Register of Salaries \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/your-council/our-people/register-of-salaries	1
Meetings Information \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/your-council/meetings-information	1
Library Relocation Media Release \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/your-council/latest-news/library-relocation	1
404 Page Not Found \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Change of Address \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/your-council/rates/change-of-address	1
Contact \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/contact	1
Employment \| Berri Barmera Councilwww.berribarmera.sa.gov.au/your-council/employment	1

Write lists or groups of links semantically

Berri Barmera Council

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