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RE: Unordered Lists

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From: Jan Eric Hellbusch
Date: Aug 9, 2005 11:09AM

Hello James,

> An informative and useful reference:
> http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/unordered-lists

Semantically seen, the message is absolutely right.

But, screen readers I know (i.e. JAWS and some German products) treat UL as
soup just as they do DIV. So, if you have an extendd unordered link list you
will get one link after another without semantic information.

Another problem with UL is that it is treated as part of the previous block
element. So, if yoz have a paragraph followed by a UL the only way to get to
the list is by first reading the paragraph (or heading).

There are similar problems with DL.

Not a problem is the use of OL. Even if you hide the list items they will be
accessed by screen readers.

Regs
Jan

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