diff --git a/.vale/styles/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/NoOptionalTitles.yml b/.vale/styles/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/NoOptionalTitles.yml
index 70a74787..f2b060b3 100644
--- a/.vale/styles/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/NoOptionalTitles.yml
+++ b/.vale/styles/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/NoOptionalTitles.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 extends: existence
 scope: raw
 level: error
+nonword: true
 link: https://github.com/openshift/openshift-docs/blob/main/contributing_to_docs/doc_guidelines.adoc#assembly-file-metadata
 message: "Do not begin a module or assembly title with 'Optional:'."
-raw:
-  - '(?<!\/\/\s?={1,5}) Optional:'
+tokens:
+  - '^={1,5} Optional:'