Content often requires enumerating items using various bullet points or dashes. In HTML, these lists must be structured using semantic tags to ensure they are correctly interpreted by assistive technologies and user agents.

Objectives

• Improve text readability.
• Provide semantic structure to list content.

Implementation

• Use
  for unordered lists and
  for ordered lists to wrap list content, and use
  1. for each list item. Use CSS to define the visual appearance of bullets or numbering.
  2. Mark up description or definition lists using the

     ,

     , and

     tags.

  Control

  • Inspect the HTML source code of the EPUB. Verify that all lists are wrapped in
    ,
    , or

    tags and that each item is contained within the corresponding

    ,

    , or

    tags.

    Validation

    • Needs to be verified by a human.