Mark Required Fields In Legal Florida Assignments Forms For Free

6.4. Clearly indicate mandatory fields A distinctive sign (?*? symbol, ?mandatory? mention, etc.) must be provided in the label of each mandatory field. If a symbol is used to declare mandatory fields, a statement placed at the beginning of the form must indicate that the symbol stands for a mandatory field.

Best Practice Required fields should be indicated with either a symbol or text, not just color. When providing an indicator for a required field, it should be placed right before the form field. This allows a screen reader to read the indicator to a screen reader user right before the user activates the field.

What are required form fields? To put it simply, a required form field must contain an answer before the respondent can submit the form. These are fields that absolutely must be answered in order for the form to be useful. It's possible for a form to be useful without having any required fields.

The "Required" field property is used to validate PDF forms submitted to a web page with scripting to process the form data, so it has no connection with the signature field unless you create that connection.

A very popular resource, NNGroup, states: "Using an asterisk to mark required fields is an easy way to improve the usability of your forms. Only marking optional fields makes it difficult for people to fill out the form."

Making a field required in Adobe Acrobat Open the necessary PDF form, choose Forms & Signatures > Prepare Form. Select the field that needs to be required, right click on it and choose Set as a Required Field: Save changes.