Pay Your Water Bill Online & Monitor Your Water Usage - City of Sonoma

City and Special Events Calendar - City of Sonoma

Subscribe - City of Sonoma

Government - City of Sonoma

Visitors - City of Sonoma

News & Updates - City of Sonoma

Businesses - City of Sonoma

Feedback - City of Sonoma

Sitemap - City of Sonoma

Building - City of Sonoma

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

September 2025

August 2025

City of Sonoma

Title / URL	Issues
Pay Your Water Bill Online & Monitor Your Water Usage - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/consumer-water-portal/	1
City and Special Events Calendar - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/calendar	1
Subscribe - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/subscribe/	1
Government - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/government	1
Visitors - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/visitors	1
News & Updates - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/news	1
Businesses - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/businesses	1
Feedback - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/feedback	1
Sitemap - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/sitemap	1
Building - City of Sonomawww.sonomacity.org/departments/building/	1

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

City of Sonoma

Where this issue has occurred