Make a complaint | Scottish Forestry

How we handle complaints | Scottish Forestry

Publications | Scottish Forestry

Privacy notice | Scottish Forestry

Gaelic Language Plan | Scottish Forestry

The UK Forestry Standard (UKFS) | Scottish Forestry

Why Plant Trees | Scottish Forestry

Our guiding legislation | Scottish Forestry

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

January 2026

December 2025

Scottish Forestry

Title / URL	Issues
Make a complaint \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/make-complaint	15
How we handle complaints \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/how-we-handle-complaints	15
Publications \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/publications/172	14
Privacy notice \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/privacy-notice	14
Gaelic Language Plan \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/gaelic-language-plan	14
Publications \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/publications/136	14
The UK Forestry Standard (UKFS) \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/uk-forestry-standard-ukfs	14
Why Plant Trees \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/why-plant-trees-0	14
Publications \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/publications/97	14
Our guiding legislation \| Scottish Forestrywww.forestry.gov.scot/our-guiding-legislation	14

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

Scottish Forestry

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