Disclaimer | City of Adelaide

Graffiti, unauthorised posters, and flyers | City of Adelaide

Resident | City of Adelaide

Business | City of Adelaide

Transport & Parking | City of Adelaide

About Council | City of Adelaide

City of Adelaide Media Centre | City of Adelaide

Recycling & waste | City of Adelaide

Web accessibility | City of Adelaide

Community | City of Adelaide

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

January 2025

December 2024

City of Adelaide

Title / URL	Issues
Disclaimer \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/disclaimer/	2
Graffiti, unauthorised posters, and flyers \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/resident/home-management/graffiti/	2
Resident \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/resident/	2
Business \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/business/	2
Transport & Parking \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/transport-parking/	2
About Council \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/about-council/	2
City of Adelaide Media Centre \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/media-centre/	2
Recycling & waste \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/resident/recycling-waste/	2
Web accessibility \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/web-accessibility/	2
Community \| City of Adelaidewww.cityofadelaide.com.au/community/	2

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

City of Adelaide

Where this issue has occurred