Plain text documents. Not applicable to technologies that contain markup.
This technique relates to:
The objective of this technique is to use text formatting conventions to create simple lists of related items. Hierarchical lists or nested lists cannot be represented using this technique and should be represented using a different technology.
A list is a sequence of list items. A list item is a paragraph that begins with a label. For unordered lists, asterisks, dashes, and bullet characters may be used as the label, but the same label characters must be used for all the items in a list. For ordered lists, the label may be alphabetic or numeric, and may be terminated by a period or a right parenthesis. The labels must be in ascending order, that is,
numbers must be in numeric order,
alphabetic labels must be in alphabetical order or in numeric order when interpreted as Roman numerals.
Example Code:
- unordered list item
- unordered list item
- unordered list item
Example Code:
1. Ordered list item
2. Ordered list item
3. Ordered list item
Example Code:
i. Ordered list item
ii. Ordered list item
iii. Ordered list item
iv. Ordered list item
Example Code:
A) Ordered list item
B) Ordered list item
C) Ordered list item
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For each list in the text content
Check that each list item is a paragraph that starts with a label
Check that the list contains no lines that are not list items
Check that all list items in a list use the same style label
Check that the labels in ordered lists are in sequential order
Check that the labels in each unordered list are the same
All checks above are all true.
If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.