Your housing officer – Soho Housing

Our board – Soho Housing

You and Soho Housing – Soho Housing

Soho Housing – Affordable housing in the heart of London

Our performance – Soho Housing

Commercial – Soho Housing

Soho Stories – Soho Housing

Contact – Soho Housing

Development – Soho Housing

Residents – Soho Housing

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

May 2025

April 2025

Soho Housing Association Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Your housing officer – Soho Housingsohoha.org.uk/residents/your-housing-officer/	8
Our board – Soho Housingsohoha.org.uk/about/our-board/	8
You and Soho Housing – Soho Housingsohoha.org.uk/residents/you-and-soho-housing/	8
Soho Housing – Affordable housing in the heart of Londonsohoha.org.uk/	8
Our performance – Soho Housingsohoha.org.uk/about/our-performance/	8
Commercial – Soho Housingsohoha.org.uk/commercial/	8
Soho Stories – Soho Housingsohoha.org.uk/about/soho-stories/	8
Contact – Soho Housingsohoha.org.uk/contact/	8
Development – Soho Housingsohoha.org.uk/development/	8
Residents – Soho Housingsohoha.org.uk/residents/	8

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

Soho Housing Association Limited

Where this issue has occurred