About Us | We See Your Future, Whatever The Past | Nacro

Page not found | Nacro

Spending Review 2021: Education | Nacro

Health and Wellbeing Services | England and Wales | Nacro

News | Latest News, Comments and Blogs | Nacro

Safeguarding | Safeguarding Policy | Nacro

Who We Support | The People We Support | Nacro

Campbell Robb: My career with volunteers | Nacro

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
About Us \| We See Your Future, Whatever The Past \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/about-us/	3
Page not found \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/invented-url-for-404-page	3
Spending Review 2021: Education \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/news/spending-review-2021-education/	2
Health and Wellbeing Services \| England and Wales \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/nacro-services/our-work-in-health/	2
News \| Latest News, Comments and Blogs \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/news-views/news/page/13/	2
Safeguarding \| Safeguarding Policy \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/safeguarding/	2
News \| Latest News, Comments and Blogs \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/news-views/news/page/4/	2
News \| Latest News, Comments and Blogs \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/news-views/news/page/39/	2
Who We Support \| The People We Support \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/who-we-support/	2
Campbell Robb: My career with volunteers \| Nacrowww.nacro.org.uk/news/campbell-robb-my-career-with-volunteers/	2

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

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