diff --git a/.vale/fixtures/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/IdHasContextVariable/.vale.ini b/.vale/fixtures/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/IdHasContextVariable/.vale.ini
index 7926affcb..2d8de48ee 100644
--- a/.vale/fixtures/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/IdHasContextVariable/.vale.ini
+++ b/.vale/fixtures/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/IdHasContextVariable/.vale.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ; Vale configuration file to test the `IdHasContextVariable` rule
 StylesPath = ../../../styles
-MinAlertLevel = suggestion
+MinAlertLevel = error
 [*.adoc]
 OpenShiftAsciiDoc.IdHasContextVariable = YES
diff --git a/.vale/styles/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/IdHasContextVariable.yml b/.vale/styles/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/IdHasContextVariable.yml
index 664221220..23ded5886 100644
--- a/.vale/styles/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/IdHasContextVariable.yml
+++ b/.vale/styles/OpenShiftAsciiDoc/IdHasContextVariable.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 extends: existence
 scope: raw
-level: warning
+level: error
 link: https://github.com/openshift/openshift-docs/blob/main/contributing_to_docs/doc_guidelines.adoc#anchoring-in-module-files
 message: "ID is missing the '_{context}' variable at the end of the ID."
 raw: