Hi Chris,

The submission by pressing enter is a native browser behaviour, hence is not an 
accessibility issue.

You will only be able to submit via enter from an input field and not from a 
textarea, which you have to tab out of and then hit enter.

So I doubt you will find any references to back-up your claim. If you do, send 
it through so we can debunk it. :-D

Best,

Jason
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

-----Original Message-----
From: "Chris Vickery" <chris.vick...@privacy.gov.au>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:20:51 
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org<wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Subject: [WSG] Is pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability 
issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

We're accessibility testing at the moment. We've got some email forms (ie. Put 
in your email address to subscribe -> submit) that do not currently submit if 
you press enter.
Personally I feel this should be an accessibility issue, but I am finding it 
difficult to locate any solid documentation to back up my claim. I've had the 
argument put to me that a keyboard only user could still tab to the submit 
button, then press enter, but this seems very unintuitive to me to force users 
to do this.

I've also had put to me that some users get confused if they want to put line 
breaks in a field and submit by accident... and so to be consistent pressing 
enter should never submit a form. (data entry people would love that one :P)

Is submitting by pressing enter from a form best practice, or just common 
practice? Is it an accessibility problem? ... and to what degree?


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