useSemanticLists

[mlewand]

New Assessment

Base Information

This is somehow covered by the documentVisualListsAreMarkedUp, but it's more complex. It might either replace documentVisualListsAreMarkedUp or be implemented within it. We shouldn't keep two similar assessments.

Rationale: In CKE we're working with HTML, so we should prefer semantic markup over plain text. Sometimes end-users tries to mimic list a with plain text.

Testability: 0.5

Techniques:

• H48

Implementation

We would need to take care of both ordered, and unordered lists.

1. "ordered lists"
   1. Find all sectioning elements (or paragraph or whatever).
   2. Get its innerText (or textContent in FF, but then it does not convert br to new line).
   3. Perform a regexp that will look for strings like: 1) foo \n+ 2, bar.
2. "unordered lists" - we must remember that someone might use <img> as bullets, followed by whitespace (possibly  ).
   1. Find all sectioning elements (or paragraph or whatever).
   2. Check if the first childElement is an img element (preferably decorative image - so empty or missing alt attr).
   3. Check if next sectioning element begins with img with the same src attribute.

Real World Examples

• Warsaw Municipalities - See how "1) kierowanie monitorowaniem" is used as a plain text.
• Government of Sweden "1. \nThe first challenge"
• Some major Norway entity that I've found linked in Norway Gov webpage (in resources section)
• French diplomacy (e.g. seciton "Pedagogical project")

Quick Fix