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. ...
↻ 2026-09-23 Updated The report’s “+22.5% elements in a single year” isn’t what you get from last year’s 1,257, so I asked WebAIM. They confirmed a calculation error and corrected the report to +14.3% (1,257 → 1,437 elements) in a reply on September 21; this post, first published on July 28, is updated to match. The 22.5% matches the two-year change since 2024 exactly. At 14.3% it is still the largest one-year jump since the study began, so the conclusions stand. What happens when you run one million home pages through an automated accessibility checker? ...
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. ...