Form submits on focus change Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

This form automatically submits when focus changes making it nearly impossible for disabled users to navigate via the keyboard.

Help

Use a submit button instead, or rely on the default behavior of submitting when the user hits enter in a text field.

Applicable standards

• WCAG 2.0 F36 (Success Criteria: 3.2.2 level A)
• WCAG 2.1 F36 (Success Criteria: 3.2.2 level A)
• WCAG 2.2 F36 (Success Criteria: 3.2.2 level A)
• Section 508 (2017) F36 (Success Criteria: 3.2.2 level A)

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

• 5.33 Apr 2019 Fix false positive on input type=file.
• 4.7 Jun 2012 Fix false negative: now fires on TEXTAREA elements that auto submit.
• 4.5 Nov 2011 Fix false negative: now fires on SELECT elements that auto submit.
• 4.5 Nov 2011 Now triggers WCAG 1 9.3.
• 3.0 Dec 2008 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccWcag2-F36-1