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Homepage | The Pensions Ombudsman

Talk Money Week 2020 | The Pensions Ombudsman

Transparency May 2023 | The Pensions Ombudsman

Four new NEDs appointed at TPO | The Pensions Ombudsman

FAQs | The Pensions Ombudsman

Exercising discretion – The case study of Miss H | The Pensions Ombudsman

Emir Feisal JP | The Pensions Ombudsman

Transparency April 2023 | The Pensions Ombudsman

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
Cookies \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/cookies	2
Responding to a complaint \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/responding-complaint	1
Homepage \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/	1
Talk Money Week 2020 \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/news-item/talk-money-week-2020	1
Transparency May 2023 \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/publication/transparency-may-2023	1
Four new NEDs appointed at TPO \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/news-item/four-new-neds-appointed-tpo	1
FAQs \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/faqs	1
Exercising discretion – The case study of Miss H \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/case-study/exercising-discretion	1
Emir Feisal JP \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/team-member/emir-feisal-jp	1
Transparency April 2023 \| The Pensions Ombudsmanwww.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/publication/transparency-april-2023	1

Add a submit button to all forms

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