New York Film Academy | College of Film, Media, & Performing Arts

Photography School | NYFA

Master of Arts | MA Degree | NYFA

Producing School | NYFA

Film School | Degrees, Programs & Workshops | NYFA

Areas of Study | Acting, Film & Media Programs | NYFA

Online Workshops and Classes | New York Film Academy

Online Degrees | New York Film Academy

Degree Programs | Undergraduate & Graduate | NYFA

Associate of Fine Arts | NYFA

Lists of related items should be written [semantically](https://html.com/semantic-markup/) as a 
list.

Usually this means rewriting these to use the `<ul>` or `<ol>` tags.

This allows assistive technologies to more easily navigate from item to
item, or past entire groups of links if the user wants to. 

## Examples 

### Navigation

This navigation:

```html
<a href="/about">About us</a>
<a href="/products">Products</a>
<a href="/contact">Contact us</a>
```

Should be rewritten as a list:

```html
<ul>
  <li><a href="/about">About us</a></li>
  <li><a href="/products">Products</a></li>
  <li><a href="/contact">Contact us</a></li>
</ul>
```

### Tables for content

This single-column table is redundant. There is no
value in placing the content in a table, which makes
it harder for screen reader users to interpret and interact
with.

```html
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Banana
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Apple
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Pear
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
```

Should be rewritten as a list:

```html
<ul>
  <li>Banana</li>
  <li>Apple</li>
  <li>Pear</li>
</ul>
```

## Justification

Users of assistive technologies, like screen readers, can skip an entire
list in one step. In some cases, they can even search inside a list. 

These aids are not available where links are written outside a list. 
Failing to use lists correctly can force users to have to step through
hundreds of items one at a time.

## Methodology

1. Any single-column tables are automatically considered 
   redundant lists. 
2. For non-table elements, recursively work down the page looking inside
   each element for links separated by minimal amounts of non-link text. 
   If the non-link text is below 30 characters 
   in length, we assume we're inside content that should be a list.
   Some exceptions are made, e.g. the presence of an `<hr>` would break
   out of the list.

## More information

See [Technique
H48](https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20161007/H48) for
details.

mark-navigation-section-as-list

August 2025

July 2025

New York Film Academy

	Title / URL	Issues
	New York Film Academy \| College of Film, Media, & Performing Artswww.nyfa.edu/	4
	Photography School \| NYFAwww.nyfa.edu/photography-school/	4
	Master of Arts \| MA Degree \| NYFAwww.nyfa.edu/degrees/ma/	4
	Producing School \| NYFAwww.nyfa.edu/producing-school/	4
	Film School \| Degrees, Programs & Workshops \| NYFAwww.nyfa.edu/film-school/	4
	Areas of Study \| Acting, Film & Media Programs \| NYFAwww.nyfa.edu/areas-of-study/	4
	Online Workshops and Classes \| New York Film Academywww.nyfa.edu/online-programs/	4
	Online Degrees \| New York Film Academywww.nyfa.edu/online-degrees/	4
	Degree Programs \| Undergraduate & Graduate \| NYFAwww.nyfa.edu/degrees/	4
	Associate of Fine Arts \| NYFAwww.nyfa.edu/degrees/afa/	4

Write lists or groups of links semantically

New York Film Academy

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