Checkpoint 4.9 - Mobile-PDA

Many web designers create their own list bullet styles to improve the visual appearance of a web page content. This is alright in an internet environment that targets desktop browsers as long as the bullets are called in through CSS, however, for the mobile device environment where bandwidth, download time, cost and screen size are limiting factors for the user, bullets should not be constructed from images.

Requirement

Images are not used for list bullets

Recommendation

Use the native bullet capability from HTML's <ul> and <li> elements, and style them using CSS.

Checking Tool

View the page in a mobile device and verify that bullets are not images.

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-use-markup)