# Form Copy Review

Assess form labels, instructions, required fields, help text, validation, consent, errors, review states, submission, and completion messaging.

## Usage note

Review copy in the functioning form, not only a design file. Labels, requirements, errors, consent, focus, and confirmation must remain understandable together across real states.

## How to use this template

1. Define the user's goal, business purpose, data need, consequence, and end state.
2. Review every label, requirement, instruction, example, option, and button in sequence.
3. Trigger validation, system failure, timeout, duplicate, review, and confirmation states.
4. Check privacy, consent, accessibility, data preservation, and support paths with owners.
5. Revise and retest the working form across devices and relevant assistive technology.

## Blank template

### Form context

- **Form and user goal:** [Enter]
- **Entry and completion states:** [Describe]
- **Data purpose:** [Enter]
- **Consequence or commitment:** [Describe]
- **Required versus optional information:** [List]
- **Privacy or consent owner:** [Name/role]
- **Form version and environment:** [Enter]

### Field card

Duplicate for every field.

- **Persistent label:** [Write]
- **Required status:** [Required / Optional]
- **Reason collected:** [Explain]
- **Help text:** [Write or None]
- **Example format:** [Enter]
- **Allowed values or limits:** [Enter]
- **Error message:** [Problem and correction]
- **Sensitive-data concern:** [Enter or None]
- **Dependency on another field:** [Describe]

### Choice and action review

- **Option group question:** [Write]
- **Choices and default:** [List]
- **Required consent text:** [Enter]
- **Optional consent text:** [Enter]
- **Review-before-submit summary:** [Enter]
- **Primary button:** [Exact action]
- **Secondary action:** [Cancel / Save / Back / Other]
- **Irreversible warning:** [Enter or None]

### State and QA checks

- [ ] Labels remain visible and programmatically associated.
- [ ] Required fields and formats are explained before errors.
- [ ] Errors identify, explain, and support recovery.
- [ ] Entered data is preserved safely after validation failure.
- [ ] Optional choices are not disguised as required.
- [ ] Confirmation states the result, timing, and next step.
- **Test states:** [Success / Network / Timeout / Duplicate / Session / Other]
- **Issue owner and recheck trigger:** [Enter]