This post is part of an ongoing effort to monitor public websites as a web accessibility professional. It is written with the goal of improving information accessibility and advancing technology — not as a political statement. I only recently found out the Cheong Wa Dae website had been redesigned. Life gets busy, and I was a bit late to the news — but as soon as I heard, I was curious enough to check it out. ...
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. ...
This essay records what I have wrestled with on the ground about web accessibility, public web services, and the responsibilities of developers. Between law and technology, standards and reality, I try to answer the question: “Are we truly building for everyone?” Is today’s Seollal(Korean Lunar New Year) really providing equal information to everyone? Produced by: Nano Banana Ahead of the Seollal(Korean Lunar New Year) holiday, I browse the web to find helpful information. Seollal(Korean Lunar New Year) is a uniquely Korean holiday. As I visit site after site, the first thing I often encounter is an auto-rotating banner or card news. Around Seollal, these banners include important government notices like emergency information. ...