Governance

Company | McCormick Corporation

Lines of Business | McCormick Corporation

News Center | McCormick Corporation

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Flavor | McCormick Corporation

Blog

Custom Flavor Development | McCormick Corporation

Culture and Values | McCormick Corporation

404 | McCormick Corporation

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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Title / URL	Issues
Governancewww.mccormickcorporation.com/responsibility/governance	17
Company \| McCormick Corporationwww.mccormickcorporation.com/en/company	8
Lines of Business \| McCormick Corporationwww.mccormickcorporation.com/company/business	8
News Center \| McCormick Corporationwww.mccormickcorporation.com/en/news-center	8
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.mccormickcorporation.com/	8
Flavor \| McCormick Corporationwww.mccormickcorporation.com/en/flavor	8
Blogwww.mccormickcorporation.com/news-center/blog	8
Custom Flavor Development \| McCormick Corporationwww.mccormickcorporation.com/flavor/custom-flavor	8
Culture and Values \| McCormick Corporationwww.mccormickcorporation.com/company/culture-and-values	8
404 \| McCormick Corporationwww.mccormickcorporation.com/meta-data/header/investors/resources	8

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

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