News - Space Institute

Tullahoma Faculty - Space Institute

Research - Space Institute

HORIZON - Space Institute

Computational and Experimental Aerospace Research Lab (CEAR) - Space Institute

Future Students - Space Institute

People - Space Institute

Staff - Space Institute

Faculty and Staff Resources - Space Institute

Combustion and Propulsion for Aviation Research Center (C-PARC) - Space Institute

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 Tennessee Space Institute

Title / URL	Issues
News - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/news-events/news/	1
Tullahoma Faculty - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/people/faculty/	1
Research - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/research/	1
HORIZON - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/horizon/	1
Computational and Experimental Aerospace Research Lab (CEAR) - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/cear/	1
Future Students - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/future-students/	1
People - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/people/	1
Staff - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/people/staff/	1
Faculty and Staff Resources - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/people/resources/	1
Combustion and Propulsion for Aviation Research Center (C-PARC) - Space Institutewww.utsi.edu/cparc/	1

Add a submit button to all forms

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