Listed buildings register | Manchester City Council

Tenders and contracts | Manchester City Council

Conservation areas | Manchester City Council

Business and investment | Manchester City Council

Location | Manchester City Council

Events | Manchester City Council

Windrush 2025 | Manchester City Council

Complaints, comments & questions | Manchester City Council

Payments | Manchester City Council

Accessibility statement | Manchester City 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.

list-not-following-semantics

September 2025

August 2025

Manchester City Council

Title / URL	Issues
Listed buildings register \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/info/514/listed_buildings_register	4
Tenders and contracts \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/info/200095/tenders_and_contracts	4
Conservation areas \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/info/511/conservation_areas	4
Business and investment \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/business	1
Location \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/location	1
Events \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/events/year/2025/month/7	1
Windrush 2025 \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/events/event/5660/windrush_2025	1
Complaints, comments & questions \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/complaints	1
Payments \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/info/500161/payments	1
Accessibility statement \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/accessibility	1

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

Manchester City Council

Where this issue has occurred