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. ...
What happens when you run one million home pages through an automated accessibility checker? About 56 million accessibility errors come pouring out. That’s an average of 56.1 per page. The number alone might get a shrug — “that’s just the web.” The problem is the direction. Last year it was 51. In a single year, errors grew by 10.1%. After years of slow-but-steady progress, web accessibility just took a step backward. ...
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. ...