Planning Permissions Granted | The Housing Agency

Contact Us | The Housing Agency

Freedom of Information Publication Scheme | The Housing Agency

Access to Information on the Environment | The Housing Agency

Data Insight Series | The Housing Agency

First Home Scheme | The Housing Agency

Help to Buy Scheme | The Housing Agency

Housing Supply Coordination Task Force - Dublin Pipeline | The Housing Agency

Local Authority Home Loan | The Housing Agency

Freedom of Information | The Housing Agency

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

Housing Agency

Title / URL	Issues
Planning Permissions Granted \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/node/461	2
Contact Us \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/contact-us	2
Freedom of Information Publication Scheme \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/about-us/foi-publication-scheme	2
Access to Information on the Environment \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/about-us/access-to-information	2
Data Insight Series \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/data-hub/data-insight-series	2
First Home Scheme \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/first-home-scheme	2
Help to Buy Scheme \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/help-buy-scheme	2
Housing Supply Coordination Task Force - Dublin Pipeline \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/node/463	2
Local Authority Home Loan \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/local-authority-home-loan	2
Freedom of Information \| The Housing Agencywww.housingagency.ie/node/102	2

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

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Where this issue has occurred