Department of Child Support Services

Registrar of Voters

Human Resources Division

County Counsel

Information Systems Division

District Attorney

County Administrator's Office

Auditor Controller

Purchasing & Support Services

Clerk of the Board

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

March 2025

February 2025

San Joaquin County, California

Title / URL	Issues
Department of Child Support Serviceswww.sjgov.org/department/dcss	2
Registrar of Voterswww.sjgov.org/department/rov	2
Human Resources Divisionwww.sjgov.org/department/hr	2
County Counselwww.sjgov.org/department/cc	2
Information Systems Divisionwww.sjgov.org/department/isd	2
District Attorneywww.sjgov.org/department/da	2
County Administrator's Officewww.sjgov.org/department/cao	2
Auditor Controllerwww.sjgov.org/department/aud	2
Purchasing & Support Serviceswww.sjgov.org/department/pss/bids	2
Clerk of the Boardwww.sjgov.org/department/cob	2

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

San Joaquin County, California

Where this issue has occurred