Form asks for the same email twice

Why it matters

A "Confirm your email" field makes every visitor type the same thing twice. That is slow and tiring for people with motor impairments, and hard for people with memory or cognitive impairments — and it rarely catches a typo, since most people copy the first field. WCAG 2.2 asks forms not to make people re-enter information they already gave.

Who it affects: Screen reader users, voice-control users who say a field's label to move to it, and people with memory or attention difficulties who lose a placeholder once they type.

What Lumtera flags

Forms with two or more visible email fields where a later one is labelled or named as a confirmation — "confirm", "repeat", "retype", "re-enter", "verify", "again", or "email 2". Each form is reported once. Password confirmation fields are left alone, because WCAG allows re-entry for security.

Check ID form-redundant-entry — use it to filter the content report or with wp lumtera issues --rule.

How to fix it in WordPress

Remove the "confirm email" field. To catch typos, show the address back to the visitor before they submit, or send a confirmation email with a link. Most form plugins have a setting to turn the confirmation field off.

Example

<label for="email">Email</label>
<input type="email" id="email">
<label for="email2">Confirm email</label>
<input type="email" id="email2">

<label for="email">Email</label>
<input type="email" id="email" autocomplete="email">

How to check your fix

1. Update the post. The issue disappears from the Accessibility sidebar on the next check, and from the site report on the next scan.
2. Click each field's label: the cursor should move into the field. With a screen reader, each field should announce its label when it receives focus.