Contact us | Westward

Development | Westward

Accessibility of website | Westward

Procurement | Westward

Homes for sale | Westward

Your tenancy | Westward

Your finances | Westward

MyAccount | Westward

Equality, diversity and inclusion | Westward

Westward Housing Group | Westward

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 2024

April 2024

Westward Housing Group Limited

Title / URL	Issues
Contact us \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/contact-us	2
Development \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/development	2
Accessibility of website \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/accessibility	2
Procurement \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/procurement	2
Homes for sale \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/home-for-sale	2
Your tenancy \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/your-tenancy	2
Your finances \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/your-finances	2
MyAccount \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/myaccount	2
Equality, diversity and inclusion \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/equality	2
Westward Housing Group \| Westwardwww.westwardhousing.org.uk/your-home	2

Ensure lists are marked up correctly

Westward Housing Group Limited

Where this issue has occurred