Fix · Moderate · should fix soon
How to fix: lists not marked up as lists
Screen readers do not announce list count or position. Semantic lists provide programmatic structure.
- WCAG references
- 1.3.1
- Severity
- Moderate
What it looks like in the wild
Screen readers do not announce list count or position.
The screen-reader user, keyboard user, or low-vision user encountering this issue does not get an error message. The page just stops working for them. Which is why this kind of bug rarely shows up in your error tracker; it shows up in support tickets, lawsuits, and abandoned conversions.
Why it fails WCAG
Semantic lists provide programmatic structure.
Map this back to 1.3.1 when you log the bug. Auditors and procurement teams expect that mapping; "broken" is not enough context.
The wrong pattern (avoid)
HTML
<div class="bullet">• Item 1</div>
<div class="bullet">• Item 2</div>The right pattern (copy this)
HTML
<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
</ul>Related fixes
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