Services :: North Cumbria Integrated Care

Wigton Community Hospital :: North Cumbria Integrated Care

Penrith Community Hospital :: North Cumbria Integrated Care

Privacy notice :: North Cumbria Integrated Care

Allerdale breastfeeding support group

Governors Council general meeting

Cumberland Infirmary :: North Cumbria Integrated Care

Penrith breastfeeding support group

Research and development :: North Cumbria Integrated Care

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

June 2025

May 2025

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Title / URL	Issues
Services :: North Cumbria Integrated Carewww.ncic.nhs.uk/services	3
Wigton Community Hospital :: North Cumbria Integrated Carewww.ncic.nhs.uk/locations/wigton-community-hospital	2
Penrith Community Hospital :: North Cumbria Integrated Carewww.ncic.nhs.uk/locations/penrith-community-hospital	2
Privacy notice :: North Cumbria Integrated Carewww.ncic.nhs.uk/privacy-notice	2
Allerdale breastfeeding support groupwww.ncic.nhs.uk/events/event-details?occurrenceID=556	2
Allerdale breastfeeding support groupwww.ncic.nhs.uk/events/event-details?occurrenceID=561	2
Governors Council general meetingwww.ncic.nhs.uk/events/event-details?occurrenceID=499	2
Cumberland Infirmary :: North Cumbria Integrated Carewww.ncic.nhs.uk/locations/cumberland-infirmary	2
Penrith breastfeeding support groupwww.ncic.nhs.uk/events/event-details?occurrenceID=1192	2
Research and development :: North Cumbria Integrated Carewww.ncic.nhs.uk/trust/research-development	2

Add a submit button to all forms

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Where this issue has occurred