Water | Gladstone Regional Council

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Contact Us | Gladstone Regional Council

Pay, Apply and Report | Gladstone Regional Council

Living Here | Gladstone Regional Council

Bridges | Gladstone Regional Council

Works and Projects | Gladstone Regional Council

Straying Livestock | Gladstone Regional Council

Abandoned Vehicles | Gladstone Regional Council

Mapping | Gladstone Regional Council

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 2026

December 2025

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Water \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Living-Here/Services/Water	3
	Roads \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Living-Here/Services/Roads	2
	Contact Us \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Council/About-Council/Contact-Us	2
	Pay, Apply and Report \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Living-Here/Pay-Apply-and-Report	1
	Living Here \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Living-Here	1
	Bridges \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Living-Here/Services/Bridges	1
	Works and Projects \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Living-Here/Services/Works-and-Projects	1
	Straying Livestock \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Living-Here/Pets-and-Animals/Straying-Livestock	1
	Abandoned Vehicles \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Living-Here/Report/Abandoned-Vehicles	1
	Mapping \| Gladstone Regional Councilwww.gladstone.qld.gov.au/Living-Here/Services/Mapping	1

Write lists or groups of links semantically

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