Supreme Court of Canada | Search case information

Supreme Court of Canada | Calculating deadlines

Supreme Court of Canada | Judges

Supreme Court of Canada | Filing documents with the Registry

Supreme Court of Canada | The Supreme Court at work

Supreme Court of Canada | Office of the Registrar

Supreme Court of Canada | Court hearings

Cour suprême du Canada | Accueil

Supreme Court of Canada | File a document

Supreme Court of Canada | Guidelines for Preparing Documents to be Filed with the Supreme Court of Canada (Print and Electronic)

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
Supreme Court of Canada \| Search case informationwww.scc-csc.ca/cases-dossiers/search-recherche/	2
Supreme Court of Canada \| Calculating deadlineswww.scc-csc.ca/filing-depot/deadlines-delais/	2
Supreme Court of Canada \| Judgeswww.scc-csc.ca/about-apropos/judges-juges/	1
Supreme Court of Canada \| Filing documents with the Registrywww.scc-csc.ca/parties/counsel-avocats/filing-depot/	1
Supreme Court of Canada \| The Supreme Court at workwww.scc-csc.ca/about-apropos/work-travail/	1
Supreme Court of Canada \| Office of the Registrarwww.scc-csc.ca/about-apropos/registrar-registraire/	1
Supreme Court of Canada \| Court hearingswww.scc-csc.ca/cases-dossiers/hearings-audiences/	1
Cour suprême du Canada \| Accueilwww.scc-csc.ca/fr/home-accueil/	1
Supreme Court of Canada \| File a documentwww.scc-csc.ca/filing-depot/	1
Supreme Court of Canada \| Guidelines for Preparing Documents to be Filed with the Supreme Court of Canada (Print and Electronic)www.scc-csc.ca/filing-depot/guide/	1

Add a submit button to all forms

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