# ContactForm

> Full contact form with validation, attachments, and submission flow.

- Status: beta
- Group: form
- Page: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/design-system/components/contact-form
- Contract: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/contracts/v1/ContactForm.contract.json

## When to use

The full contact form with validation, attachments, and submission flow against the contact API. Page-level organism; for the live contact page's editorial styling see ContactFormEditorial.

## When not to use

- Do not pass props. The component intentionally accepts none. If you need a variant, compose smaller atoms at the pattern layer.
- Do not swallow the `/api/contact` endpoint. The submit handler expects that endpoint specifically; redirecting it requires changing the rate-limiting, telemetry, and email plumbing too.
- Do not remove the honeypot. It catches a meaningful share of bot submissions without any user-facing UX cost.

## Look-alikes

The contract names no look-alike with a deciding condition.

## Props

This component takes no props.

## Variants

No variant dimensions and no props with a fixed set of values.

## Invalid combinations

The contract records no invalid combinations.

## Keyboard

| Key | Behaviour |
| --- | --- |
| Tab | Moves focus to the control and on to the next focusable element. (standard) |
| Enter | Activates the focused control. (standard) |
| Space | Activates or toggles the focused control. (standard) |

Rows marked (standard) name a key the contract lists without a description; the behaviour shown is the usual one for that key.

## Rules

Every item under When not to use is a MUST NOT. MUST and SHOULD follow RFC 2119.

| Level | Rule | How it is checked |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MUST | ARIA: Labels on all fields. | Not yet verified: no evidence record. WCAG 4.1.2. |
| MUST | ARIA: Error messages associated. | Not yet verified: no evidence record. WCAG 4.1.2. |
| MUST | Required stories produce no axe violations at the configured severity. | Automated by `npm run test:stories:matrix:ci`. WCAG 2.5.8. |
| MUST | The accessibility tree (role, name, state) matches the committed snapshot for every required story. | Automated by `npm run test:stories:matrix:ci`. WCAG 1.3.1, 4.1.2. |
| MUST | The component remains legible and operable under a real browser forced-colors: active pass. | Automated by `npm run test:stories:hc`. |
| MUST | Every documented keyboard interaction works as specified. | Not yet verified: no evidence record. WCAG 2.1.1, 2.1.2. |
| MUST | A human completed an end-to-end accessibility review of this component. | Manual review, last on 2026-05-26. |

## Install and import

- In-repo only. ContactForm is not exported from `@digitaltableteur/react`, so there is no public import path.

## Links

- Machine-readable contract (Design System Contract 1.0): https://www.digitaltableteur.com/contracts/v1/ContactForm.contract.json
- Markdown version of this page: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/design-system/components/contact-form.md
- Component index as JSON: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/design-system/components.json
- All components: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/design-system/components
- Source: The implementation lives in a private repository. This page, its Markdown twin and the contract are generated from it at build time and are the public source of truth.