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. ...
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. ...