Events | Valentine Independent School District

Jr High Lady Pirates basketball | Valentine Independent School District

Veteran's Day Program | Valentine Independent School District

Fall Festival Fun! Photo credits: Lisa Morton, Nancy Donaldson, and Jill Miller. | Valentine Independent School District

Employment | Valentine Independent School District

Pirates loot the Pumpkin Patch! | Valentine Independent School District

Christmas Program 2024. Photo credits: Irma Porras. | Valentine Independent School District

Live Feed | Valentine Independent School District

Homecoming 2024 Monday Pajama day | Valentine Independent School District

STUCO T-Shirts on sale! | Valentine Independent School District

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.

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June 2024

May 2024

Valentine ISD

Title / URL	Issues
Events \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/events	3
Jr High Lady Pirates basketball \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/article/1424547	2
Veteran's Day Program \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/article/1345167	2
Fall Festival Fun! Photo credits: Lisa Morton, Nancy Donaldson, and Jill Miller. \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/article/1318602	2
Employment \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/page/employment	2
Pirates loot the Pumpkin Patch! \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/article/1308997	2
Christmas Program 2024. Photo credits: Irma Porras. \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/article/1408859	2
Live Feed \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/live-feed	2
Homecoming 2024 Monday Pajama day \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/article/1460826	2
STUCO T-Shirts on sale! \| Valentine Independent School Districtwww.valentineisd.com/article/1461027	2

Write lists or groups of links semantically

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