- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:00:19 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
While the answers so far are of course correct, I'd still question to an extent how "necessary" the use of lists is in very simple examples. When there are only 2-3 links or so, is it truly essential that the fact there are 2-3 links is conveyed, and the additional context of "1 of 2", "2 of 2" before the links is not more verbose than anything else? While 1.3.1 does require that structure conveyed visually/by layout also be conveyed programmatically...what happens when visually these links are simply shown as a horizontal series of links - no bullet points, not "list-like" layout. Simply 2-3 links on a row next to each other? Sometimes, "a cigar is just a cigar" and I'd argue that, for very simple cases, it's actually ok NOT to have a list. I'd certainly feel very odd dinging a site with a hard FAIL for not wrapping just 2-3 links shown in a row as a list. (and, as an aside, note how VoiceOver actually suppresses announcements of lists when their visual list-like styling has been suppressed via CSS...so in many cases, even IF authors then go through the extra effort of conveying structural semantics, they may not actually be conveyed). P -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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