Courses - De Montfort University

Student support at De Montfort University

DMU research themes

Regions

International - De Montfort University

De Montfort University Board of Governors

Research support

Barclays Eagle Labs

Events for international students

Applying to study at De Montfort 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

De Montfort University

Title / URL	Issues
Courses - De Montfort Universitywww.dmu.ac.uk/study/courses/courses.aspx	1
Student support at De Montfort Universitywww.dmu.ac.uk/study/support/index.aspx	1
DMU research themeswww.dmu.ac.uk/research/themes/index.aspx	1
Regionswww.dmu.ac.uk/International/en/Regions/index.aspx	1
International - De Montfort Universitywww.dmu.ac.uk/international/en/international.aspx	1
De Montfort University Board of Governorswww.dmu.ac.uk/governance/bog/index.aspx	1
Research supportwww.dmu.ac.uk/Research/Research-support/index.aspx	1
Barclays Eagle Labswww.dmu.ac.uk/business/barclays-eagle-labs.aspx	1
Events for international studentswww.dmu.ac.uk/International/en/events/index.aspx	1
Applying to study at De Montfort Universitywww.dmu.ac.uk/study/applying/index.aspx	1

Add a submit button to all forms

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