Children's Services Centre Rural City of Wangaratta

What's On Rural City of Wangaratta

Local Laws Rural City of Wangaratta

Young Writers Award Rural City of Wangaratta

Online resources Rural City of Wangaratta

Cemetery Rural City of Wangaratta

Digital Support Rural City of Wangaratta

Locations Rural City of Wangaratta

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Bike Racks Rural City of Wangaratta

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

February 2026

January 2026

Rural City of Wangaratta

	Title / URL	Issues
	Children's Services Centre Rural City of Wangarattawww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Services/Families-and-Children/Childrens-Services-Centre	2
	What's On Rural City of Wangarattawww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Community/Whats-On	2
	Local Laws Rural City of Wangarattawww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Community/Compliance/Local-Laws	1
	Young Writers Award Rural City of Wangarattawww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Locations/Library/Young-Writers-Award	1
	Online resources Rural City of Wangarattawww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Locations/Library/Online-resources	1
	Cemetery Rural City of Wangarattawww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Locations/Cemetery	1
	Digital Support Rural City of Wangarattawww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Locations/Library/Digital-Support	1
	Locations Rural City of Wangarattawww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Locations	1
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Home	1
	Bike Racks Rural City of Wangarattawww.wangaratta.vic.gov.au/Locations/Outdoor-Spaces/Bike-Racks	1

Write lists or groups of links semantically

Rural City of Wangaratta

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