Consultants - Manchester Royal Infirmary

Services Archive - Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

Services - Manchester Royal Infirmary

Homepage - Withington Community Hospital

Get in touch - Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

Location - Manchester Royal Infirmary

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

March 2026

February 2026

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Title / URL	Issues
Consultants - Manchester Royal Infirmarymft.nhs.uk/mri/consultants/?letter=F	2
Services Archive - Royal Manchester Children's Hospitalmft.nhs.uk/rmch/services/?letter=V	2
Services - Manchester Royal Infirmarymft.nhs.uk/mri/services/?letter=E	2
Homepage - Withington Community Hospitalmft.nhs.uk/withington/	2
Services Archive - Royal Manchester Children's Hospitalmft.nhs.uk/rmch/services/?letter=S	2
Get in touch - Royal Manchester Children's Hospitalmft.nhs.uk/rmch/get-in-touch/	2
Services - Manchester Royal Infirmarymft.nhs.uk/mri/services/?letter=M	2
Location - Manchester Royal Infirmarymft.nhs.uk/mri/location/	2
Consultants - Manchester Royal Infirmarymft.nhs.uk/mri/consultants/?letter=J	2
Services Archive - Royal Manchester Children's Hospitalmft.nhs.uk/rmch/services/?letter=O	2

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Where this issue has occurred