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From: Rakesh P
Date: Sep 19, 2014 11:55AM

Dear all,

I was so far of the thought that a HTML list should contain more than
2 list items. Though in some cases when the possibility of increasing
the number of list items I suggest list having 2 but I never
recommended having a single item in list.
Today while I am reading some articles to write a best practice for
using HTML list I found that even a single item can be in list.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/lists.html

Can any one help me clarify this. My screen reader say list of one
items even though I have a single item.
Another question I have is for definition list.
I understand we use a definition list
where a terms should be defined such as a glosary. Does definition
list holds good if I use it for FAQs or instances where I have a list
of items having a heading as <dt> and a paragraph of content under it
as <dd>.
Thanks & Regards
Rakesh