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Re: WCAG2: does a search form without a submit button fail?

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From: _mallory
Date: Jul 31, 2015 5:28AM

Hi,
what happens if I entered searchy text and hit tabr+enter? if I didn't
see there wasn't a button, I may overshoot the form.

Unless it fails Understandable, which it well might, this may be more
the realm of so-so usability rather than a direct WCAG violation.

Whether it's expected behaviour is pretty much set by your userbase.

In a not-very-relevant aside, I still use Opera 12 for various keyboardy
reasons. Some sites, like community.sitepoint.com (which does have a
separate submit) give me a CSRF error if I hit enter rather than first
focussing on the submit. I suspect this is due to the hidden input not
being sent along with the login/pass on enter (form submit) which some
browsers have been known to have issue with, while *everything* is sent
on the submit-button-click+submit event.

This might not be an issue with users of non-ancient browsers though.

_mallory


On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Lynn Holdsworth wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a search form that's submitted when a user presses Enter in the
> textbox. It doesn't include a submit button.
>
> Does this fail WCAG2 anywhere, or does this fall into the realms of
> expected behaviour?
>
> Thanks as always, Lynn
> > > >