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Correctness

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Of course, you want to write correctly in the language you’ve selected. Correctness combines all spelling and grammar guidelines.

Correctness Presets

Acrolinx provides presets that are suitable for a lot of content needs. The presets make it easy to pick the type of guidance you’d like so you don’t have to adjust each individual guideline.

Warning

In Correctness, you should make sure that the selected language matches the language of your Target.

To make sure that the right language is selected, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Targets in your Acrolinx Dashboard.

  2. Hover over the Target that you’d like to edit and click the Target name.

  3. Click on Correctness to expand it.

  4. Check if the language preset is the correct one.

  5. If necessary, select the matching language from the dropdown.

To define what Acrolinx checks, you can customize the individual guidelines to create a custom preset. See Fine-tune your Goals for more information.

Warning

Careful, you can only create one custom preset for each goal within a Target.

Correctness Guidelines

When you drill down into the guidance, you’ll find several guideline groups.

Guideline Group

Description

Spelling

Acrolinx picks up simple spelling mistakes and typos with these guidelines.

Spelling Exceptions

Some parts of your content, like code or foreign words, might not need a spell check.

Word Confusion

One letter can change the meaning of a word, and with it, the meaning of the whole sentence. Acrolinx checks commonly confused words.

Nouns and Adjectives

Acrolinx checks for common issues with nouns and adjectives, like irregular forms.

Verbs

Verbs need certain guidelines, too. Especially when it comes to irregular forms.

Spaces

Extra spaces can cause trouble. Luckily, Acrolinx finds them.

Punctuation

Guidelines that make sure the punctuation is right.

Hyphens

Use a hyphen or not? Make sure that you’re using hyphens correctly.

Sentence Structure

Is your sentence arrangement grammatically correct? Acrolinx checks sentence structure and word order.

Formats

Certain formats apply for some commonly used parts of content.

Brand

There are conventions that determine how you should use a brand term.

Link Checking

Acrolinx can check if the links in your content work. See more on link checking in the following section.

Note

Wondering why some guideline names, like punctuation and hyphenation, appear under both Correctness and Consistency? It’s because guidelines are independent. Correctness checks for spelling and grammar, while Consistency focuses on style.

How Does Acrolinx Check for Broken URLs?

Let's dive into how Acrolinx looks for and finds broken URLs.

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When you check your content with an Acrolinx Integration, Acrolinx visits the URL to see if the URL is still valid. URLs that aren't valid appear as Style issues.

You can use Acrolinx to check for URLs in the following formats:

Note

Before you run a check, make sure that the corresponding Content Profile has the right adjustments. For example, if you want Acrolinx to check all href attributes, you'll need to add href under Attributes to Extract.

  • URLs that you write in the text. For example:

    Visit our website http://www.acrolinx.com for more information.

  • URLs in all XML attributes except URLs for namespaces or document types. But Acrolinx won't highlight the attribute when you click on the URL issue card in the Sidebar. For example:

    Visit our <A HREF="http://www.acrolinx.com"> website </A>

Visit our website at <xref format="html" href="http://www.acrolinx.com" scope="external"></xref>

Acrolinx finds the URLs in your content according to statuses. For example, "Page not found." Acrolinx grabs the HTTP header information from each new URL and saves the URL in a cache that's stored on the Acrolinx Platform. Acrolinx saves each URL in the cache with a timestamp of the check and the validity of the URL.

Acrolinx reviews the URL cache every 5 minutes to see if there are any URLs due for rechecking. You can adjust the default time interval for checking the URLs. The default time interval for checking a URL in the cache is every 12 hours. Acrolinx rechecks and URLs that are older than this time interval and updates the timestamp and status information.

During a check, Acrolinx searches the cache for validated URLs from previous checks. When it finds a match in the cache, Acrolinx looks at the URL's validation information. If the status says that the URL is invalid, Acrolinx will raise a Correctness issue.