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From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Date: Dec 16, 2023 5:22AM

I agree. Submit button can be in disabled state but user should know about
its presence and purpose.
Regards,
Srinivasu
Regards,

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 9:33 PM Mark Magennis < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> A disabled Submit button can still be focusable and exposed to AT.
> Coding-wise, if you add the HTML disabled attribute it will not be
> focusable in most, if not all, browsers. But if you add
> aria-disabled="true" it will remain focusable. This makes it discoverable
> and gives you the opportunity to provide some information in the name or
> description about why it is currently disabled.
> > From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of jp
> Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Thursday 14 December 2023 14:00
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WebAIM] Whether or not to disable form submit
> button
>
> What Chat GPT provided is not necessarily WCAG compliant. In fact, it is a
> UX Design guideline. All of the UX designers I have worked with since 2018
> have been implementing this.
>
> While it might work for sighted users, I find it to work against screen
> reader and keyboard only users. If the form does not display any errors
> once a form element loses focus and no status alerts are spoken, then the
> user would tab to the end of the form and there is no Submit button
> receiving focus. That Throws the user off until the user figures out that
> something is wrong with the form.
>
> I am not claiming that I am against it. As long as
> 1. there is a visual alert
> And
> 2. status alert
>
> Once the invalid form element loses focus , having the Submit button
> disabled is okay. Unfortunately, UX Design does not take all users in
> consideration. That is why my approach with UX Designers is to look at an
> inclusive approach rather than what is defined by UX Design documentation.
>
> Just my 2 cents on this.
>