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🆕 What is the new behavior?

New section Forms and form fields added
Subsections are:

  • Overview
  • Form headings
  • Form field labels
  • Placeholders
  • Helper / info text
  • Feedback and validation

Deleted Frequent app functions and Dialogs and buttons

  • Getting started with UX writing updated accordingly
  • Related links in Components updated

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  • Documentation
    • Added comprehensive writing guidance for forms, including field labels, headings, helper text, validation messages, placeholders, and general form usage.
    • Added a dedicated “Forms and form fields” section to the documentation navigation.
    • Updated component guides with links to the relevant writing and accessibility guidance.
    • Reordered the general information and administrative emails section in the sidebar.
    • Removed the “Dialogs and buttons” and “Frequent app functions” guidance pages and their references.

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The documentation now includes a Forms and form fields section with guidance for form structure, labels, headings, helper text, validation messages, and placeholders. Superseded pages were removed, and related links and sidebar ordering were updated.

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Forms and form fields guidance

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Documentation navigation and migration
docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/_category_.json, docs/guidelines/language/dialogs-and-buttons.md, docs/guidelines/language/frequent-app-functions.md, docs/guidelines/language/operational-emails/.../_category_.json, docs/guidelines/language/writing-style-guide-getting-started.md
Adds the Forms and form fields category, removes superseded language pages, updates sidebar ordering, and adds the new section to the getting-started page.
Form structure and naming
docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/overview.md, docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/form-field-labels.md, docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/form-headings.md
Adds guidance for required-field indicators, character counters, labels, headings, subheadings, examples, and related links.
Field text guidance and references
docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/helper-info-text.md, docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/feedback-and-validation.md, docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/placeholders.md, docs/components/button/guide.md, docs/components/loading-modal/guide.md, docs/components/message-modal/guide.md
Adds guidance for helper text, validation messages, and placeholders. Updates component guide links to current writing and accessibility guidance.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

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Suggested reviewers: nuke-ellington

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d54b0

Readers may encounter inconsistent headings, misleading link labels, empty headings and incomplete cross-references in the new guidance. These issues do not affect runtime behavior, so merge risk is low but the documentation should be corrected before publishing.

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In `@docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/feedback-and-validation.md`:
- Line 19: Update the password length guidance in the Helper text and the
“Password must have…” validation message to say “at least 8 characters,”
ensuring the wording describes a minimum rather than an exact length.
- Line 47: Update the unavailable-username validation message to state the
specific missing requirement, using wording such as “Username is already in use”
or “Choose a different username” instead of only “Username unavailable.” Apply
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- Line 25: Update the guidance statements in the feedback and validation
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In `@docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/form-headings.md`:
- Line 28: Replace curly apostrophes with straight apostrophes throughout the
affected prose in the form headings guidance, including the instances in
“don’t,” “you’ll,” “We’ll,” and “it’s,” while preserving the surrounding
wording.

In `@docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/helper-info-text.md`:
- Line 99: Update the list item guidance in the helper-info documentation to
split the combined instruction into two complete sentences, ending the first
after “requirements” and stating that a tooltip should be used instead.

In `@docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/overview.md`:
- Line 95: Change the “Dos and Don'ts” heading to “Dos and don'ts” in
overview.md:95-95, form-field-labels.md:94-94, form-headings.md:118-118,
helper-info-text.md:87-87, and feedback-and-validation.md:97-97 to use sentence
case consistently.

In `@docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/placeholders.md`:
- Line 35: Replace the empty helper-text link in the placeholder guidance with a
relative Markdown link to helper-info-text.md, preserving the existing link text
and surrounding guidance.
- Line 103: Update the “Dos and Don'ts” heading to sentence case as “Dos and
don'ts,” preserving the existing heading level and content.
- Line 11: Remove the standalone “#” line from the placeholders documentation so
it no longer creates an unlabeled level-one heading.
- Line 8: Update the description text to use plural terminology by changing “a
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<div class="dos">
<ul aria-label="Recommended practices">
<li>Field label: Password</li>
<li>Helper text: Minimum 8 characters, 1 uppercase letter (A-Z), 1 special character (!@#$%^&*)</li>

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

State the minimum password length precisely.

Line 19 says "Minimum 8 characters", but Line 25 says "Password must have 8 characters". Use "Password must have at least 8 characters" to avoid implying an exact length.

Also applies to: 25-25

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In `@docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/feedback-and-validation.md` at
line 19, Update the password length guidance in the Helper text and the
“Password must have…” validation message to say “at least 8 characters,”
ensuring the wording describes a minimum rather than an exact length.

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<li>Helper text: (empty and requirement only appears after user starts typing) Invalid: Password must have 8 characters.</li>

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Refer to users consistently in the guidance.

The page uses singular the user and user in several guidance statements. The style guide requires users in the plural. Use wording such as when users... and user input.

Also applies to: 30-30, 47-47, 72-72, 102-109

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In `@docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/feedback-and-validation.md` at
line 25, Update the guidance statements in the feedback and validation examples
to refer to users consistently in the plural, using wording such as “when
users…” and “user input” instead of singular “the user” or “user.” Apply this
consistently to the referenced examples while preserving their existing meaning.

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Provide invalid text when the user input has not met the specified requirements and explain exactly what requirement is missing.

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Make the unavailable-username message actionable.

Line 47 requires invalid text to explain the missing requirement. "Username unavailable" only reports a state. Use "Username is already in use" or "Choose a different username".

Also applies to: 53-53

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In `@docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/feedback-and-validation.md` at
line 47, Update the unavailable-username validation message to state the
specific missing requirement, using wording such as “Username is already in use”
or “Choose a different username” instead of only “Username unavailable.” Apply
the same change to the additional occurrence.

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<li>Don't use the same text label wording as helper text</li>
<li>Don't use helper text when there are extensive requirements, instead use a tooltip</li>

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Split the two instructions into separate sentences.

The documentation style guide requires full stops for full sentences in lists. Use: Don't use helper text when there are extensive requirements. Use a tooltip instead.

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Use sentence case for every "Dos and Don'ts" heading.

These headings use title case, which conflicts with the documentation style guide. Change each heading to ## Dos and don'ts.

  • docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/overview.md#L95-L95: Change the heading to sentence case.
  • docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/form-field-labels.md#L94-L94: Change the heading to sentence case.
  • docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/form-headings.md#L118-L118: Change the heading to sentence case.
  • docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/helper-info-text.md#L87-L87: Change the heading to sentence case.
  • docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/feedback-and-validation.md#L97-L97: Change the heading to sentence case.
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Change the “Dos and Don'ts” heading to “Dos and don'ts” in overview.md:95-95,
form-field-labels.md:94-94, form-headings.md:118-118, helper-info-text.md:87-87,
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Use plural terminology.

Change "once a user starts typing" to "once users start typing." The style guide requires "users" instead of singular user references.

As per path instructions, "Talk about 'users' (plural), not 'the user'."

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In `@docs/guidelines/language/forms-and-form-fields/placeholders.md` at line 8,
Update the description text to use plural terminology by changing “a user” to
“users,” while preserving the rest of the placeholder guidance unchanged.

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description: 'Placeholders offer a hint or example of the expected input, but they disappear once a user starts typing. They should never replace a label as users lose that guidance the moment they need it most.'
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Remove the empty heading.

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Use sentence case for this heading.

Change ## Dos and Don'ts to ## Dos and don'ts.

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