Spell check, grammar, reading age (Siteimprove / Silktide)

[willguv]

Many councils rely on tools such as Siteimprove or Silktide to check spellings, grammar and reading age after a page has been published.

I was wondering if content editors would prefer to do this as pages are created, and how they check such things now

There's a commercial option for spell checking in CKEditor 5 https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/spelling-and-grammar-checking.html

Also see https://www.drupal.org/project/hemingway

Let's check the need, and consider options

[willguv]

Keelan: something in the mark up that we can change to leverage spell check tools in browsers. Works on summary field, not in CKEditor

[andybroomfield]

For Hemmingway, according to https://dev.to/samwsoftware/creating-my-own-hemingway-app-143 This is the formula:

let level = Math.round(4.71 * (letters / words) + 0.5 * words / sentences — 21.43);

So we could potentially write one?

[willguv]

@andybroomfield a couple of content editors I've spoken to have mentioned the ability to check content against house style. So they would set up rules (eg banned words) and these would be flagged in CK Editor

I wondered if you've seen anything like this and whether your content designers would find it useful?

All thoughts welcome

[willguv]

Find out

How content editors do this now, and whether they'd benefit from something built in

[willguv]

Essex - uses 2i and Hemingway, spell checker in Word

Bracknell Forest - Hemingway

Emma - Grammarly highlights content in CK Editor (try the free version)

Luton - thinks in page grammar/ spell check would help

Copy AI? Monthly word allowance

[andybroomfield]

BHCC uses Silktide

[andybroomfield]

My instinct would not be to become dependant on third party services, but offer either guidance or a module that can preconfigure any setup should a council wish to contract with them.