Risk Services | UCOP

UC Operations | UCOP

Systemwide Academic Personnel | UCOP

Strategy and Program Management Office | UCOP

University of California | Office of The President

Systemwide Office of Civil Rights | UCOP

Academic Affairs | UCOP

University of California Health | UCOP

Research & Innovation | UCOP

Graduate, Undergraduate and Equity Affairs | UCOP

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

University of California Office of the President

	Title / URL	Issues
	Risk Services \| UCOPucop.edu/risk-services/index.html	1
	UC Operations \| UCOPucop.edu/uc-operations/index.html	1
	Systemwide Academic Personnel \| UCOPwww.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/index.html	1
	Strategy and Program Management Office \| UCOPucop.edu/spmo/index.html	1
	University of California \| Office of The Presidentucop.edu/index.html	1
	Systemwide Office of Civil Rights \| UCOPucop.edu/civil-rights/index.html	1
	Academic Affairs \| UCOPwww.ucop.edu/academic-affairs/index.html	1
	University of California Health \| UCOPucop.edu/uc-health/index.html	1
	Research & Innovation \| UCOPwww.ucop.edu/research-innovation/index.html	1
	Graduate, Undergraduate and Equity Affairs \| UCOPwww.ucop.edu/graduate-undergraduate-equity-affairs/index.html	1

Add a submit button to all forms

University of California Office of the President

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