ITW Global Supplier Commitment | ITW

ITW & Sustainability | ITW

ITW’s Legacy of Industrial and Customer-Back Innovation | ITW

Discover ITW | ITW

ITW’s Business Segment Overview | ITW

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Terms and Conditions of Use | ITW

Contact ITW for Corporate or General Inquires | ITW

Error | ITW

ITW Company History | ITW

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

April 2025

March 2025

Illinois Tool Works

Title / URL	Issues
ITW Global Supplier Commitment \| ITWwww.itw.com/suppliers/	41
ITW & Sustainability \| ITWwww.itw.com/sustainability/itw-sustainability/	1
ITW’s Legacy of Industrial and Customer-Back Innovation \| ITWwww.itw.com/about-itw/innovation/	1
Discover ITW \| ITWwww.itw.com/about-itw/discover-itw/	1
ITW’s Business Segment Overview \| ITWwww.itw.com/about-itw/business-segments/	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.itw.com/	1
Terms and Conditions of Use \| ITWwww.itw.com/terms-and-conditions-of-use/	1
Contact ITW for Corporate or General Inquires \| ITWwww.itw.com/contact-us/	1
Error \| ITWwww.itw.com/invented-url-for-404-page/	1
ITW Company History \| ITWwww.itw.com/about-itw/history/	1

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

Illinois Tool Works

Where this issue has occurred