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Imagine scoring 71 on a test. Not quite “well done,” but surely enough to say “you tried,” right? Carrefour, one of France’s largest retailers, seems to have thought so too. In court, the company argued: “Our website complies with 71% of the French accessibility standard.” The court’s answer was blunt. “An e-commerce site cannot be only somewhat accessible; it must be totally accessible.” On June 4, 2026, the judicial court of Caen, France, ordered Carrefour to make its website and mobile app fully accessible within six months. Miss the deadline, and a penalty of 500 euros accrues every single day. It’s the first enforcement ruling to come out of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) regime. ...

Imagine a webpage with five images. Four of them have no alt text. When a blind user visits this page using a screen reader, those images are announced simply as “image” — or worse, as a raw filename. No meaning. No context. This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s the reality measured by South Korea’s 2025 Web Information Accessibility Survey, published on March 27, 2026. A user sitting in front of a laptop — without alt text, all image information is completely blocked Photo: Ardalan Hamedani / Unsplash What Changed This Year South Korea’s 2025 survey adopted a new standard. The guidelines were updated from KWCAG 2.1 (24 criteria) to KWCAG 2.2 (32 criteria), with 9 new items added. ...

Analyzing accessibility issues on Google Antigravity's homepage — behind the flashy text animations Image: AI-generated Google takes accessibility seriously. Android’s TalkBack, Chrome’s accessibility developer tools, Lighthouse’s accessibility audits… Google-built tools are used by developers worldwide every day. The same goes for Microsoft — Accessibility Insights, Narrator, Windows high-contrast mode. When it comes to accessibility tooling, these two companies are in a league of their own. ...