Tooltips and help

XForms provides extremely powerful mechanisms for providing help to users, both in the form of tooltips as well as [F1]-style help. Importantly, XForms has evolved to correct many of the limitations of current forms technologies, and allows for fully internationalised and accessible hints. In the following screenshot an XForms hint is used to show an image as well as formatted text:

Hints can also be multimodal--formsPlayer supports delivering hints and other messages using voice technology:

One other point worth drawing attention to is that XForms provides a mechanism for items such as hints and help (as well as error messages and form control labels) to be provided by external XML files, making it extremely easy to first define the structure and logic of a form, and then to 'drop in' any number of alternative files. This allows the same form to be provided to users who speak different languages.