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Re: Forms as lists

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From: Simius Puer
Date: Sep 2, 2010 1:37PM

I'd have to agree with Steve.

Using mark-up structurally is always one of those areas where debate could
exist as to what each element *could* be, but I'd tend to agree that a list
of questions still does not in most instances justify the use of the list
element - ordered or not.

This is a similiar scenario to legal documents where paragraphs/headings are
numbered. Some people argue that as the paragraphs/headings are numbered
then they must be an ordered list which simply is not the case. Doing so
leads to an huge amount of additional code and a reduction in accessibility.

There are other (some might argue - more marginal) reasons that I concur
with your approach. It all comes down to minimal mark-up which has the
benefit of being:

- less cluttered for screen readers
- easier to manage
- better for SEO (mark-up vs content balance)
- improved loading and rendering times

...whilst they might all sound like tiny things in themselves their value is
greater than the simple sum of their parts.