Pretty Up Your Lists

This is another easy tip. When you're writing a short bulleted or numbered list, use your blogging tool to create the bullets or numbers instead of using asterisks, dashes, typing numbers in by hand, or just dropping down one line.

When a screen reader encounters a list that's correctly formatted, it tells your blog's visitor that a list is coming up and how many items are in it. That way, the person can get a sense of what's coming next the way a sighted person would from seeing the page. If your list is a list of links, proper list formatting will also prevent screen readers and text-only browsers from running them all together into a big mess.

Blogger, WordPress, Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal, and Vox all have buttons you can click to easily apply list formatting to your list.

So make those lists, and make 'em pretty!

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