Energy efficiency | Manchester City Council

Funfair at Debdale Park | Manchester City Council

Location | Manchester City Council

Events | Manchester City Council

Complaints, comments & questions | Manchester City Council

Payments | Manchester City Council

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Accessibility statement | Manchester City Council

People and Communities | Manchester City Council

Libraries | Manchester City 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

July 2025

June 2025

Manchester City Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Energy efficiency \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/info/500017/energy_efficiency	1
	Funfair at Debdale Park \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/events/event/5631/funfair_at_debdale_park	1
	Location \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/location	1
	Events \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/events/year/2025/month/4	1
	Complaints, comments & questions \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/complaints	1
	Payments \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/info/500161/payments	1
	First time visit: View without clicking anythingwww.manchester.gov.uk/	1
	Accessibility statement \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/accessibility	1
	People and Communities \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/community	1
	Libraries \| Manchester City Councilwww.manchester.gov.uk/info/200062/libraries	1

Add a submit button to all forms

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