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Capitalize the first letter in lists Usability Guideline

Description

Capitalize the first letter of the first word in lists.

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Only the first letter of the first word should be capitalized unless the item contains another word that would normally be capitalized.

Applicable standards

Note: The guidelines.usability.gov website has been down since July 2020, although www.usability.gov is still operating and the PDF version of the guidelines is still available.

Change history

  • 5.27 Oct 2017 Don’t fire for code examples in lists.
  • 5.21 Mar 2016 Don’t fire for navigation lists.
  • 5.2 May 2013 Updated priority to match April 2013 version of guidelines.
  • 5.0 Oct 2012 Don’t fire for product names like iPhone.
  • 4.0 Jun 2010 Only fire in HTML documents.
  • 3.0 Dec 2008 Don’t fire for URLs in bulleted lists.
  • 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: UseGov12.9