Fair Access Protocol

Cheshire East account

Cheshire East Council Schools ePayments

Fostering in Cheshire with Cheshire East Council

School appeals

Lifelong Learning

Choosing school preferences

Local land charges and searches

Pay a school absence fine

Council and Democracy

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

July 2025

June 2025

Cheshire East Council

Title / URL	Issues
Fair Access Protocolwww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/schools/admissions/fair-access-protocol.aspx	1
Cheshire East accountwww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/account/cheshire-east-account.aspx	1
Cheshire East Council Schools ePaymentswww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/schools/schools_epayments/schools_epayments.aspx	1
Fostering in Cheshire with Cheshire East Councilwww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/fostering/fostering.aspx	1
School appealswww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/schools/admissions/appeals/school-appeals.aspx	1
Lifelong Learningwww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/schools/lifelong_learning/lifelong_learning.aspx	1
Choosing school preferenceswww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/schools/admissions/choosing-school-preferences.aspx	1
Local land charges and searcheswww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/planning/local_land_charges/local_land_charges.aspx	1
Pay a school absence finewww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/schools/school-attendance/pay-a-school-absence-fine.aspx	1
Council and Democracywww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/council_and_democracy/council-and-democracy.aspx	1

Add a submit button to all forms

Cheshire East Council

Where this issue has occurred