diff --git a/gget/gget_elm.py b/gget/gget_elm.py
index d0a7f985..56e11cfe 100644
--- a/gget/gget_elm.py
+++ b/gget/gget_elm.py
@@ -295,14 +295,14 @@ def elm(
 
                 if len(aa_seqs) == 0:
                     raise ValueError(
-                        f"No amino acid sequences found for UniProt ID {sequence} from the UniProt server. Please double-check your UniProt ID and try again."
+                        f"No amino acid sequences found for UniProt Acc {sequence} from the UniProt server. Please double-check your UniProt Accession Number and try again."
                     )
 
                 # seq_lens = [len(seq) for seq in aa_seqs]
 
             else:
                 raise ValueError(
-                    f"No amino acid sequences found for UniProt ID {sequence} from the UniProt server. Please double-check your UniProt ID and try again."
+                    f"No amino acid sequences found for UniProt Acc {sequence} from the UniProt server. Please double-check your UniProt Accesion Number and try again."
                 )
 
     if len(ortho_df) == 0: