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Rollins College Launches Orlando’s First Evening Childcare Program for Students

New President of Rollins College

Rollins College Bookstore

Emergency Rollins College

Planning Your Visit to Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida

Alumni & Supporters

Title IX and Violence Prevention

Campus Map

Welcome to the journey of a lifetime.

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.

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	Title / URL	Issues
	Rollins News & Featuresrollins.edu/news/	3
	Rollins College Launches Orlando’s First Evening Childcare Program for Studentsrollins.edu/news/growing-together/	2
	New President of Rollins Collegewww.rollins.edu/news/brooke-barnett-named-16th-president-of-rollins/	2
	Rollins College Bookstorerollins.edu/bookstore/	1
	Emergency Rollins Collegerollins.edu/emergency/	1
	Planning Your Visit to Rollins College in Winter Park, Floridawww.rollins.edu/visit/plan-your-visit/	1
	Alumni & Supportersrollins.edu/alumni-supporters/	1
	Title IX and Violence Preventionwww.rollins.edu/title-ix/	1
	Campus Mapwww.rollins.edu/map/	1
	Welcome to the journey of a lifetime.www.rollins.edu/college-of-liberal-arts/	1

Write lists or groups of links semantically

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