Independent accessibility consulting · South Korea
Accessibility, tested in real use.
I’m Hyongsop Kim, a blind accessibility consultant. I help businesses understand the barriers people encounter in their digital products—and work toward practical improvements.
AccessBridge is my one-person business. The perspective is personal. The work is technical.
Consulting
From a user’s difficulty to a clearer technical explanation.
I bring first-hand screen-reader experience to accessibility consulting for businesses. I look at what people can read, understand and operate, then investigate the structure and platform behavior behind the problem.
Real-world use
I work through web and mobile experiences with assistive technology, looking beyond whether a label exists to how focus, announcements and interaction work in practice.
Technical investigation
I connect the observed difficulty with HTML, accessibility semantics or platform API behavior. The aim is to explain both what gets in the user’s way and where the team can investigate next.
Practical communication
Clear explanations, reproducible examples and annotated screenshots help make an issue understandable to planners and actionable for developers. Retesting matters: a proposed change and a confirmed improvement are not the same thing.
How I work
AI assists my sight. It does not replace my judgment.
AI is an essential visual assistant in my daily work. It helps me examine layouts, adjust the visual styling of documents, place my signature in documents and highlight the part of a screenshot that illustrates an accessibility problem.
I also use it to describe screens and support structural investigation. But an AI explanation is not the same as a screen reader working correctly. I keep observation, a possible cause and a verified result separate.
AI gives me more ways to work independently. It is not a reason to leave the original product’s accessibility barriers unresolved.
Independent · Unpaid
Some barriers need a platform-level fix.
Separately from my consulting work, I report accessibility problems in Google and Apple platform projects. When a bug sits in a browser, screen reader or accessibility API, an application team may not be able to fix it in its own code.
I contribute reproductions, explanations of the user impact, feedback and retesting. This is voluntary work, not paid work for those platform companies. The public records below show selected examples—not a complete count of my reports.
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TalkBack image labels in Android WebView
Chromium · Fixed and verified
I reported a regression that stopped TalkBack from announcing accessible image labels in Android WebView, provided reproductions and helped retest the change. Google recorded verification in WebView 138.0.7204.167. The implementation was by the platform developer.
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Current-state announcements in Chrome
Android tracker · Vendor-reported fix
I reported missing support for aria-current, which communicates an item’s current state. Google’s development team reported a fix for a future Chrome build. The record does not establish an exact shipping version.
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Dynamic current-state updates in VoiceOver
WebKit tracker · Resolved outside WebKit
I reported that iOS VoiceOver did not announce dynamic changes to aria-current. The maintainer explained that the fix belonged outside WebKit and said it was fixed in shipping software. The report does not establish an exact iOS version.
These are independent public reports. They do not represent a partnership with or endorsement by Google or Apple.
About
One consultant. A first-person perspective.
I’m Hyongsop Kim (김형섭), based in South Korea. I run AccessBridge as a sole proprietor alongside my company-based work.
Being blind shapes the questions I ask about digital products. I combine lived experience with technical investigation so that a usability problem can be discussed in terms a product team can work with.
My approach is straightforward: understand the difficulty, describe the evidence clearly and check what changes in real use.
Contact
Tell me what you’re working on.
For business accessibility consulting enquiries, email me with a short description of your product and the questions you want to explore.