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We are happy to announce the release of Industry Spell Checkers (Additional Dictionaries). Industry Dictionaries are available for the Licensed Customers of SpellChecker.net.

The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and accurate spell checker ever developed.
Turn your basic spell checker into a spelling expert with the following Industry Dictionaries:
* Medical
* Pharmaceutical
* Veterinary
* Legal
* Botanical
* Dental
* Technical
* Biotech
* Geographical

You do not use Rich HTML Text editors? You have lots of forms on your site and want to add spell-checking feature to them?

SCAYT Text Box is for you!

View Demo or Download installation package

Enhance your TinyMCE editor by adding SpellCheckAsYouType feature.

SCAYT allows the user to see and correct misspellings while typing. Misspelled words are underlined. The user just needs to right-click a marked word and select a suggestion to replace the word with.

Sample is available for your review.

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Our partner CKSource released CKEditor 3.1! The official information is available on  CKEditor site.

New updated and improved WSC and SCAYT plug-ins are available with CKEditor 3.1. Download CKEditor 3.1 now!

We’ve been working hard during the last year to produce completely new version of SpellCheckAsYouType (SCAYT) product. SCAYT 2.0 is improved and optimized. Prompt loading, quick and smart text processing, cross browser support and other benefits are already available for SCAYT 2.0 users.

SpellChecker.net company is Gold Level Sponsor of CKSourse (formerly FCKeditor) company. In scope of partnership between these two companies, WSC and SCAYT 2.0 are integrated spell-checkers in the just released CKEditor 3.0.

Free hosted version of WSC and SCAYT 2.0 with advertisement banner is available for all CKEditor customers. To get rid from advertisement banner you should migrate from hosted free version to Hosted Paid or Licensed version.
Please follow migration instructions:
* Migration Instruction from free hosted version to paid hosted version
* Migration Instruction from free hosted version to licensed version

View demos:
* CKEditor demo on CKEditor official site
* CKEditor demo on SpellChecker.net site

Download CKEditor 3.0 with SCAYT 2.0 Now!

CKEditor 3.0 Release Candidate is available to public! Release was announced on June 22, 2009 on FCKeditor site. This release is not yet targeted to production web sites but it can be used for evaluation purposes.

SCAYT is already available in CKEditor release candidate version!
Please note, that SCAYT support in RC is realized for FireFox, Chrome and Safari browsers. Internet Explorer is supported, but SCAYT was disabled in RC for IE because of some issues, which have already been fixed. Support of Internet Explorer will be available in the release version of CKEditor.

Demo and downloadable package is available on the CKEditor web site.

The final release of CKEditor 3.0 with WSC and SCAYT 2.0 as an embedded spell-checkers is scheduled to July 7, 2009!

SpellChecker.net team is actively working on SpellCheckAsYouType (SCAYT) Version 2.0 and extension of the languages supported for spell-checking. Your participation in the survey will help us to improve SpellChecker.net products and services in order to meet your business needs and to set our priorities according to yours.

Click here to participate.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to participate in our survey. We value your feedback.

508 Law
In 1998, Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. (Source – section508.gov).

Importance of Section 508 Compliance
When a software company wants to use any product in a software application developed for a federal government organization, the proposal requires validation of Section 508 compliance for all proposed software and the documentation of this compliance in the proposal. Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) document for a proposed component should be prepared to satisfy this requirement.

SpellChecker.net WebSpellChecker is Section 508 Compliant
SpellChecker.net WebSpellChecker is Section 508 compliant and is used by number of government organizations.
Main requirements covered are as follows:
1. Keyboard access is provided throughout SpellChecker.net WebSpellChecker. Application allows the navigation of menu options via the [Tab] key.
2. SpellChecker.net WebSpellChecker does interfere with neither operating systems’ accessibility features nor the accessibility features of other applications.
3. SpellChecker.net WebSpellChecker reads from a form, displays in SpellChecker.net popup and returns to a form rich text with correspondent formatting.
4. SpellChecker.net company provides support services via emails, live chat, phone calls. People with disabilities can choose a preferred way to contact support.
Details are available in SpellChecker.net VPAT.

Dictionary of every language is not permanent and new words enrich our lexicon constantly. Take a look at the picture. Most of these words are familiar for you, aren’t they? We use these words on a daily basis, though most of them are not listed in e.g. Logman English Dictionary Online. These words are new computer terms, names of extensively used applications, popular companies, actors and singers, computer games, etc. Do you consider these words as misspelled? We suppose most of you do not and that’s why we do not want to annoy users of the SpellChecker.net application by marking these words as misspelled. We continuously work on the improvement of the product and improvement of the dictionary is a part of it.

One of the possible ways to improve English dictionary is to enrich it by top-keywords. Keywords are aimed to capture the essence of a topic. Keywords are words which are used by searchers in search engines. That’s why we decided to add a list of processed and reviewed keywords to English dictionary used in the application for spell-checking.

In order to get a list of top- keywords, a brief investigation was performed.
1. Free Keywords Reports
Advantages:  Free.
Disadvantages:  Small number of keywords – free reports contain 100-500 top key words.  Keywords in all reports are overlapped.
2. Tools to get Keywords (such as Google Adwords Keyword Tool, Wordtracker’s Free Tool and others).
Advantages:  Free. A possibility to search keywords related to the certain word, term, content of the web site, etc.
Disadvantages: You can get keywords only related to the certain term, entered to the search box. It doesn’t meet our goal to create a list of the top used keywords.
3. Keyword Reports
Advantages: A list of 10,000 top keywords at once.

Comparing to the time spent on collecting keywords – a price to buy the report is acceptable. Person is not able to create such big report manually using free tools and it will not contain all top keywords. That’s why we decided to buy a top-keyword list and the most attractive report to buy after an investigation occurred the Top 10,000 keywords report from Wordtracker for $69.00.

We purchased top 10,000 keywords, spell checked them with the SpellChecker.net application and then reviewed the list of misspelled words and decided which should be added to our dictionary.

English dictionary for both Hosted and Licensed versions are enriched with top-keywords. Enriched dictionary is available for all hosted clients and licnensed clients by default. Existing licensed clients should upgrade to the newest version of the SpellChecker.net application to have an improved English dictionary.