A people-centered look at Korea's Digital Inclusion Act (effective Jan 22, 2026): how it differs from the Framework Act on Intelligent Informatization, kiosk usability obligations, and impact assessment duties developers should know.
This piece is a record of wrestling with web accessibility, public services, and a developer’s responsibility from the field. Between law and technology, between standards and reality, I try to answer: “Are we really building for everyone?” While working on web accessibility for years, I found myself repeatedly hearing a similar question: “We’re certified and passed the checklist. Isn’t accessibility done now?” When I first heard this question, I nodded briefly. Many public websites did meet WCAG 2.1 / KWCAG 2.2 standards, passed screen reader tests, and satisfied contrast requirements. ...
Introduction I just returned from the AI Agent Scenario Competition Citizen Evaluation Panel held in Seoul. The panel consisted of expert judges and citizen evaluators, with the final scores reflecting both expert evaluation and citizen evaluation. Since the evaluation details are confidential, I can’t discuss individual teams or specific results. However, through this experience, I was able to clearly define what standards I use when evaluating AI public services. So in this post, rather than “how this team performed,” I want to record what questions I asked and why I thought those questions mattered. ...
Introduction Let me be honest — this choice is a losing deal on paper. I’m spending a whole day, paying for transportation out of my own pocket, and the compensation is only about $35 (50,000 KRW). Yet, I’m heading to Seoul tomorrow. I wanted to organize my reasons step by step. View from a train window - a journey to somewhere Photo: Dieter K / Unsplash The Evaluation Panel Offer and My Decision One day, while browsing the NIA (National Information Society Agency) website as usual, I discovered the Public Institution Website Citizen Evaluation Panel. Since then, I’ve been grateful to participate in the public web/app citizen evaluation activities for two years straight. The rewards and achievements may seem small, but the process and experience have been building up as personal assets. ...
Move from div-only markup to semantic HTML: when to use header, nav, main, article, and section, how article and section differ, plus heading levels and ARIA landmarks, with before-and-after examples.
Introduction We live in an age where generative AI like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini has become part of daily life. AI chatbots have established themselves on websites, and automated content generation has become commonplace. Amid this rapid technological advancement, we must ask an important question: “Is the web created by AI usable by everyone?” Web Accessibility means ensuring that everyone—people with disabilities, elderly users, those with slow network connections, and more—can use the web equally. In the AI era, or rather because it is the AI era, web accessibility has become even more critical. ...
🚀 Starting a New Blog Hello. This is a space where I record what I learn and experience, hoping it might be of some small help to someone. I call myself a “perpetual beginner developer.” There’s always so much to learn, and sometimes I repeat small mistakes, but recording and sharing this process is both my way of growing and my joy. Why Did I Start This Blog? When developing, you encounter countless trials and errors. Sometimes you panic at error messages you’ve never seen before, and sometimes you face the same problem again today that you solved yesterday. ...