Creighton University Libraries

Office of Military and Veterans Affairs

Favorited Programs

First time visit: View without clicking anything

The Success Center

School of Medicine | Creighton University | Omaha, NE

School of Law | Creighton University

Academics at Creighton

School of Pharmacy and Health Professions | Creighton University

School of Dentistry | Creighton University

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

Creighton University

Title / URL	Issues
Creighton University Librarieswww.creighton.edu/academics/libraries	2
Office of Military and Veterans Affairswww.creighton.edu/student-success/military	1
Favorited Programswww.creighton.edu/favorited-programs	1
First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.creighton.edu/	1
The Success Centerwww.creighton.edu/student-success	1
School of Medicine \| Creighton University \| Omaha, NEwww.creighton.edu/medicine	1
School of Law \| Creighton Universitywww.creighton.edu/law	1
Academics at Creightonwww.creighton.edu/academics-creighton	1
School of Pharmacy and Health Professions \| Creighton Universitywww.creighton.edu/pharmacy-ot-pt	1
School of Dentistry \| Creighton Universitywww.creighton.edu/dentistry	1

Add a submit button to all forms

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