ISO 24495 Text Audit

Audit only the path the user selects. Report mechanical findings so the user can decide whether the text suits its readers and purpose.

Language and input scope

The audit is written for English and supports English only. The skills and output style are instructions a model interprets, so they are not limited to English in the same way.

Its word rules match English words and phrases: legalese, doublet, wordy-phrase, filler-opening, complex-word, double-negative, and the phrases link-text looks for. The filler-opening rule checks only the opening prose. The link-text rule also flags empty labels and labels that are bare web addresses.

Five word rules read headings as well as prose: legalese, doublet, wordy-phrase, complex-word, and double-negative. The rules about sentences and paragraphs read prose only, because a heading is not a sentence.

The sentence-length and sentence-average rules count words separated by whitespace, including spaces and line breaks, and use English benchmarks. The paragraph-length rule counts sentences, with a limit of five.

The prose-enumeration rule flags three or more distinct ranks in a prose block, including rank one. It recognises English ordinal words and numbered markers from one to six.