About Us - Leadership at IFF

Policy Center | IFF

Food Biosciences Quality and Sustainability | IFF

Scent - LMR Naturals: History

Upcycling | Food Sustainability Solutions | IFF

Beauty & Personal Care | IFF

Animal Nutrition - Overview

Beverage Solutions and Flavor Systems | IFF

IFF | World leader in food, beverage, health, biosciences, scent

Scent - Overview

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

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Title / URL	Issues
About Us - Leadership at IFFwww.iff.com/about/leadership/	13
Policy Center \| IFFwww.iff.com/about/policy-center/	2
Food Biosciences Quality and Sustainability \| IFFwww.iff.com/food-beverage/food-bioscience/	2
Scent - LMR Naturals: Historywww.iff.com/scent/lmr-naturals/history/	2
Upcycling \| Food Sustainability Solutions \| IFFwww.iff.com/food-beverage/upcycling/	2
Beauty & Personal Care \| IFFwww.iff.com/beauty-personal-care/	2
Animal Nutrition - Overviewwww.iff.com/animal-nutrition/	2
Beverage Solutions and Flavor Systems \| IFFwww.iff.com/food-beverage/beverage/	2
IFF \| World leader in food, beverage, health, biosciences, scentwww.iff.com/	2
Scent - Overviewwww.iff.com/scent/	2

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

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