Our initiatives | The King's Trust

Our history | The King's Trust

About us | Our history and people | The King's Trust

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Media centre | Press and PR | The King's Trust

Free courses, programmes and support | The King's Trust

Our people | About The Trust | The King's Trust

Our policies and statements | About us | The King's Trust

Privacy Notice | Terms and conditions | The King's Trust

Accessibility | The King's Trust

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

December 2025

November 2025

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Title / URL	Issues
Our initiatives \| The King's Trustwww.kingstrust.org.uk/about-us/initiatives	1
Our history \| The King's Trustwww.kingstrust.org.uk/about-us/history	1
About us \| Our history and people \| The King's Trustwww.kingstrust.org.uk/about-us	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.kingstrust.org.uk/	1
Media centre \| Press and PR \| The King's Trustwww.kingstrust.org.uk/about-us/media	1
Free courses, programmes and support \| The King's Trustwww.kingstrust.org.uk/how-we-can-help	1
Our people \| About The Trust \| The King's Trustwww.kingstrust.org.uk/about-us/people	1
Our policies and statements \| About us \| The King's Trustwww.kingstrust.org.uk/about-us/our-policies	1
Privacy Notice \| Terms and conditions \| The King's Trustwww.kingstrust.org.uk/privacy-notice	1
Accessibility \| The King's Trustwww.kingstrust.org.uk/accessibility	1

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

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