Have you ever asked an AI to “put this in a table” and gotten back text littered with pipes (|) and dashes (-)? It looked like a clean table right there in the chat window — but the moment you copied it into a messaging app, it turned into a mess of symbols. Those symbols are Markdown. These days you run into it everywhere — GitHub READMEs, technical blogs, note-taking apps like Notion, even the replies an AI chatbot sends you. ...
WebAIM Million 2026 scanned the top million home pages: errors per page rose to 56.1, up 10.1% in a year, reversing years of progress. Covers the top 6 recurring errors and the ARIA paradox.
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. ...