Communities

Help Navigating Live Well

Fostering in Cheshire with Cheshire East Council

Keeping well

Community safety

Childcare

Community activities

Looking after someone

Sports and keeping active

Living independently

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

January 2025

December 2024

Cheshire East Council

Title / URL	Issues
Communitieswww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/community-activities/communities/communities.aspx	1
Help Navigating Live Wellwww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/help-navigating-live-well.aspx	1
Fostering in Cheshire with Cheshire East Councilwww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/fostering/fostering.aspx	1
Keeping wellwww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/health-matters/keeping-well/keeping-well.aspx	1
Community safetywww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/staying-safe/community-safety/community-safety.aspx	1
Childcarewww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/looking-after-someone/childcare/childcare.aspx	1
Community activitieswww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/community-activities/community-activities.aspx	1
Looking after someonewww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/looking-after-someone/looking-after-someone.aspx	1
Sports and keeping activewww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/community-activities/sports-and-keeping-active.aspx	1
Living independentlywww.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/living-independently/living-independently.aspx	1

Add a submit button to all forms

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