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min-height for HTML form's submit buttons from a web accessibility standpoint
I am styling a simple HTML-PHP-CSS contact form and I have considered to give some min-height pixel value CSS style to the form's submit button.
I ran a Google search with the query:
min-height submit button accessibility
None of the 10 articles in the first place dealt with this directly (standard) nor did it include details about min-height (as a CSS property) and submit buttons.
Is there a worldly accessibility min-height standard (pixel or otherwise) for submit buttons in forms?
1 answer
There is no universal accessibility standard for how tall your buttons should be. Consider that when you're using a simple link, users have to click on the text itself to follow the link; as long as your text size isn't ridiculously small there's no problem with that. Don't make your buttons smaller than that.
That said, min-height is generally the wrong CSS property to use for this. Make sure your text size is appropriate, then add some padding and/or margin until your button is the size you want it. You don't need to specify a min-height, because the combination of text size + padding does that for you.
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