Domestic violence disclosure | PSNI

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Advice For Students | Police Service of Northern Ireland

Ask For Angela | Police Service of Northern Ireland

Keeping Safe | PSNI

Subject Access Request | PSNI

An Incident | PSNI

Child protection disclosure | PSNI

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Found Property | PSNI

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

June 2024

May 2024

Title / URL	Issues
Domestic violence disclosure \| PSNIwww.psni.police.uk/request/domestic-violence-disclosure	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.psni.police.uk/	1
Advice For Students \| Police Service of Northern Irelandwww.psni.police.uk/safety-and-support/keeping-safe/advice-students	1
Ask For Angela \| Police Service of Northern Irelandwww.psni.police.uk/safety-and-support/keeping-safe/ask-angela	1
Keeping Safe \| PSNIwww.psni.police.uk/safety-and-support/keeping-safe	1
Subject Access Request \| PSNIwww.psni.police.uk/request/subject-access-request	1
An Incident \| PSNIwww.psni.police.uk/report/incident	1
Child protection disclosure \| PSNIwww.psni.police.uk/request/child-protection-disclosure	1
Police Service of Northern Irelandwww.psni.police.uk/	1
Found Property \| PSNIwww.psni.police.uk/report/found-property	1

Write lists or groups of links semantically

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Where this issue has occurred