Working at LVC

Administrative Offices - Offices

Admission & Aid - Admission and Financial Aid

Mission & Strategy

Safety - Student Life

Apply

Lebanon Valley College

Academics

Student Mentoring - Student Life

About Lebanon Valley College LVC

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

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Title / URL	Issues
Working at LVCwww.lvc.edu/working-at-lvc/	2
Administrative Offices - Officeswww.lvc.edu/offices/	2
Admission & Aid - Admission and Financial Aidwww.lvc.edu/admission-aid/	2
Mission & Strategywww.lvc.edu/about/mission-strategy/	2
Safety - Student Lifewww.lvc.edu/student-life/safety/	2
Applywww.lvc.edu/apply/	2
Lebanon Valley Collegewww.lvc.edu/	2
Academicswww.lvc.edu/academics/	2
Student Mentoring - Student Lifewww.lvc.edu/student-life/mentoring/	2
About Lebanon Valley College LVCwww.lvc.edu/about/	2

Add a submit button to all forms

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