Procurement | NHS Education for Scotland

Equality and diversity | NHS Education for Scotland

Our board | NHS Education for Scotland

Forest Grove House, Aberdeen | NHS Education for Scotland

EDEC, Edinburgh | NHS Education for Scotland

GDEC, Glasgow | NHS Education for Scotland

ADEC, Aberdeen | NHS Education for Scotland

Corporate publications | NHS Education for Scotland

DDEC, Conference Centre

Westport 102, Edinburgh

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

February 1970

October 2024

NHS Education for Scotland

Title / URL	Issues
Procurement \| NHS Education for Scotlandwww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/about-us/procurement/	15
Equality and diversity \| NHS Education for Scotlandwww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-and-diversity/	12
Our board \| NHS Education for Scotlandwww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/about-us/our-board/	10
Forest Grove House, Aberdeen \| NHS Education for Scotlandwww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/contact-us/forest-grove-house-aberdeen/	9
EDEC, Edinburgh \| NHS Education for Scotlandwww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/contact-us/edec-edinburgh/	9
GDEC, Glasgow \| NHS Education for Scotlandwww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/contact-us/gdec-glasgow/	9
ADEC, Aberdeen \| NHS Education for Scotlandwww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/contact-us/adec-aberdeen/	9
Corporate publications \| NHS Education for Scotlandwww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/about-us/corporate-publications/	9
DDEC, Conference Centrewww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/contact-us/ddec-conference-centre/	9
Westport 102, Edinburghwww.nes.scot.nhs.uk/contact-us/westport-102-edinburgh/	9

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

NHS Education for Scotland

Where this issue has occurred