Sustainability | EY - Ireland

Data and decision intelligence | EY - Ireland

Error Page | EY - Global

Services | EY - Ireland

Technology | Insights, case studies & services | EY - Ireland

Supply chain | EY - Ireland

Workforce analytics services | EY - Ireland

Transactions and Corporate Finance by EY-Parthenon | EY - Ireland

CRO (Risk) | EY - Ireland

Assurance Services | EY - Ireland

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 2026

December 2025

Title / URL	Issues
Sustainability \| EY - Irelandwww.ey.com/en_ie/services/sustainability	1
Data and decision intelligence \| EY - Irelandwww.ey.com/en_ie/services/big-data-analytics	1
Error Page \| EY - Globalwww.ey.com/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Services \| EY - Irelandwww.ey.com/en_ie/services	1
Technology \| Insights, case studies & services \| EY - Irelandwww.ey.com/en_ie/services/technology	1
Supply chain \| EY - Irelandwww.ey.com/en_ie/services/supply-chain	1
Workforce analytics services \| EY - Irelandwww.ey.com/en_ie/services/workforce/workforce-analytics	1
Transactions and Corporate Finance by EY-Parthenon \| EY - Irelandwww.ey.com/en_ie/services/strategy-transactions	1
CRO (Risk) \| EY - Irelandwww.ey.com/en_ie/cro-risk	1
Assurance Services \| EY - Irelandwww.ey.com/en_ie/services/assurance	1

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

Ey

Where this issue has occurred