Proud of Our Past, Confident in Our Future | Fannie Mae

About Us | Fannie Mae

Leadership Team | Fannie Mae

Financial Performance | Fannie Mae

Duty to Serve | Fannie Mae

Employee Code of Conduct | Fannie Mae

Fannie Mae Today | Fannie Mae

Corporate Governance | Fannie Mae

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Page Not Found - 404 | Fannie Mae

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

June 2025

May 2025

Fannie Mae

	Title / URL	Issues
	Proud of Our Past, Confident in Our Future \| Fannie Maewww.fanniemae.com/about-us/who-we-are/history	2
	About Us \| Fannie Maewww.fanniemae.com/about-us	2
	Leadership Team \| Fannie Maewww.fanniemae.com/about-us/fannie-mae-leadership-team	2
	Financial Performance \| Fannie Maewww.fanniemae.com/about-us/what-we-do/financial-performance	2
	Duty to Serve \| Fannie Maewww.fanniemae.com/about-us/what-we-do/duty-to-serve	2
	Employee Code of Conduct \| Fannie Maewww.fanniemae.com/about-us/who-we-are/employee-code-conduct	2
	Fannie Mae Today \| Fannie Maewww.fanniemae.com/about-us/what-we-do/fannie-mae-today	2
	Corporate Governance \| Fannie Maewww.fanniemae.com/about-us/corporate-governance	2
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.fanniemae.com/	2
	Page Not Found - 404 \| Fannie Maewww.fanniemae.com/invented-url-for-404-page	2

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

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