Freedom of information disclosure log

Request bin number stickers

Other housing options

News

Voluntary organisations

Council tax

General Data Protection Regulation

Report it

Walled Garden

Equipped play areas

Forms should always contain a submit button, otherwise some people using
accessible technologies may not be able to submit the form.

Submit buttons are `<input>` elements with a type attribute of `submit` or
`image`, or `<button>` elements with type `submit`. 

## Rationale 

Many users expect to be able to press enter in a form to submit it. However,
this is not always possible.

Users of some assistive technologies may (depending on the technology) only
be able to press a button to submit the form. In the absence of a submit
button, the user may not be able to submit the form.

In addition, the absence of a submit button suggests that the form may 
provide an automatic 'change of context', i.e. major change to the user 
interface without the user choosing to do so. This can be highly disorientating
to some users.

## Further reading

See [Technique H32](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H32.html).

form-submit-required

June 2025

May 2025

Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council

Title / URL	Issues
Freedom of information disclosure logwww.basingstoke.gov.uk/disclosure-log	1
Request bin number stickerswww.basingstoke.gov.uk/bin-stickers	1
Other housing optionswww.basingstoke.gov.uk/housing-options	1
Newswww.basingstoke.gov.uk/news	1
Voluntary organisationswww.basingstoke.gov.uk/doyourbit	1
Council taxwww.basingstoke.gov.uk/counciltax	1
General Data Protection Regulationwww.basingstoke.gov.uk/GDPR	1
Report itwww.basingstoke.gov.uk/report	1
Walled Gardenwww.basingstoke.gov.uk/walledgarden	1
Equipped play areaswww.basingstoke.gov.uk/playareas	1

Add a submit button to all forms

Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council

Where this issue has occurred