News - Hillingdon Council

Food hygiene - Hillingdon Council

Fire risk issue in communal areas - Hillingdon Council

Our all-age apprenticeship programme - Hillingdon Council

Brothels, prostitution or drug selling from a property - Hillingdon Council

Repaying an overpayment - Hillingdon Council

Fly-posting - Hillingdon Council

Benefits - Hillingdon Council

Lost and stray dogs - Hillingdon Council

Order recycling bags and sets - Hillingdon Council

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

London Borough of Hillingdon Council

Title / URL	Issues
News - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/news	1
Food hygiene - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/food-hygiene	1
Fire risk issue in communal areas - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/fire-risk	1
Our all-age apprenticeship programme - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/apprenticeships	1
Brothels, prostitution or drug selling from a property - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/prostitution-and-drug-sellling	1
Repaying an overpayment - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/housingbenefitoverpayment	1
Fly-posting - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/fly-posting	1
Benefits - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/benefits	1
Lost and stray dogs - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/lost-dogs	1
Order recycling bags and sets - Hillingdon Councilwww.hillingdon.gov.uk/recycling-bags	1

Add a submit button to all forms

London Borough of Hillingdon Council

Where this issue has occurred