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Motor Vehicle | Dallas County, IA

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Government | Dallas County, IA

Services | Dallas County, IA

Secondary Roads | Dallas County, IA

Business and Planning | Dallas County, IA

Conservation | Dallas County, IA

Treasurer | Dallas County, IA

Contact Us | Dallas County, IA

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.

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January 2025

December 2024

Dallas County, Iowa

Title / URL	Issues
Dallas County Sheriff's Office \| Dallas County, IAwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/government/public-safety/sheriff	2
Motor Vehicle \| Dallas County, IAwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/government/county-government/treasurer/motor-vehicle	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/	1
Government \| Dallas County, IAwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/government	1
Services \| Dallas County, IAwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/services	1
Secondary Roads \| Dallas County, IAwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/government/public-safety/secondary-roads	1
Business and Planning \| Dallas County, IAwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/government/business-and-planning	1
Conservation \| Dallas County, IAwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/services/conservation-and-recreation/conservation	1
Treasurer \| Dallas County, IAwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/government/county-government/treasurer	1
Contact Us \| Dallas County, IAwww.dallascountyiowa.gov/government/about-the-county/contact-us	1

Write lists or groups of links semantically

Dallas County, Iowa

Where this issue has occurred