News | Haringey Council

Culture | Haringey Council

Business rates | Haringey Council

Adult social care | Haringey Council

Births, deaths, marriages and citizenship | Haringey Council

Homelessness | Haringey Council

Have your say | Haringey Council

Housing news and policies | Haringey Council

Children's Libraries | Haringey Council

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.

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September 2025

August 2025

London Borough of Haringey Council

Title / URL	Issues
News \| Haringey Councilwww.haringey.gov.uk/news/search?page=5	1
Culture \| Haringey Councilwww.haringey.gov.uk/leisure-parks-culture/culture	1
Business rates \| Haringey Councilharingey.gov.uk/business/business-rates	1
Adult social care \| Haringey Councilwww.haringey.gov.uk/adult-social-care	1
Births, deaths, marriages and citizenship \| Haringey Councilwww.haringey.gov.uk/births-deaths-marriages-citizenship	1
Homelessness \| Haringey Councilwww.haringey.gov.uk/housing/homelessness	1
Have your say \| Haringey Councilwww.haringey.gov.uk/council-elections/have-your-say	1
Housing news and policies \| Haringey Councilwww.haringey.gov.uk/housing/housing-news-policies	1
News \| Haringey Councilwww.haringey.gov.uk/news	1
Children's Libraries \| Haringey Councilwww.haringey.gov.uk/libraries/childrens-libraries	1

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

London Borough of Haringey Council

Where this issue has occurred