WCAG 1.3.1 · Level A
Definition List
- What is broken
- Definition list markup is malformed, breaking the term-to-definition relationship.
- Who it affects
- Screen reader users navigate by headings and landmarks; when the structure is wrong they lose the map of the page.
- How to fix it
- Put only correctly ordered <dt>/<dd> groups inside <dl>.
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