About - UTHealth Houston

Office of Academic Affairs and Student Success - UTHealth Houston

Office of Postdoctoral Affairs - UTHealth Houston

Office of Technology Management - UTHealth Houston

Ways to Give - Philanthropy at UTHealth - UTHealth Houston

Philanthropy at UTHealth - UTHealth Houston

Maps - UTHealth Houston

404 Error - Page not found! - Main - UTHealth Houston

Visiting Scholars Program - Executive Vice President & Chief Academic Officer - UTHealth Houston

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

December 2025

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University of Texas Health Science Center Houston

Title / URL	Issues
About - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/about/	7
Office of Academic Affairs and Student Success - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/student/	1
Office of Postdoctoral Affairs - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/postdocs/	1
Office of Technology Management - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/otm/	1
Ways to Give - Philanthropy at UTHealth - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/giving/ways-to-give/	1
Philanthropy at UTHealth - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/giving/	1
Office of Academic Affairs and Student Success - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/oaass/	1
Maps - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/maps/	1
404 Error - Page not found! - Main - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/invented-url-for-404-page	1
Visiting Scholars Program - Executive Vice President & Chief Academic Officer - UTHealth Houstonwww.uth.edu/evpara/otvs/	1

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

University of Texas Health Science Center Houston

Where this issue has occurred