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Accessibility statements split sharply by origin

83% of US-origin beauty storefronts selling into the United States publish an accessibility statement against 37% of Korean-origin ones, a gap of 46 points, with US-origin brands the ones publishing.

An accessibility statement is the cheapest visible sign a US storefront has been through a compliance review, and a brand selling into the United States without one is not merely missing a page, it is usually a brand whose site nobody has audited, which is a live exposure in a market where web accessibility is litigated.

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84 of a possible 90Tier B, systematic first-party observation. Nothing at this tier is allowed past 90, however good it looks.

Verified September 9, 2026Rechecked every 180 days, next by March 8, 2027.

Structure

Held since August 5, 2026How the market is physically or commercially arranged. The earliest date we are willing to say this held. It may well have been true before that; we do not backdate a record past the evidence we have read. Supported, version 1.

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A repeat run finds the two accessibility-page rates within 25 points of each other.

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Evidence

  1. Tier Bobserved-webn = 37

    orbt: Market Register commerce collector, run commerce-20260805140548

    Presence of a page whose handle names accessibility in the storefront’s own pages sitemap. Presence and not quality: this cannot tell a real conformance report from a paragraph saying accessibility matters, and both count here. What it does establish is whether the question was asked at all. A statement served from a footer overlay widget rather than a published page reads as absent. Retailers are excluded from both origin groups: OLIVE YOUNG Global, Peach & Lily, Soko Glam, Stylevana. Their catalogues are other companies’ product copy, so counting them by the storefront’s own origin would put Korean listings inside the US-origin group. Run commerce-20260805140548.

    Read 2026-08-05 · CC BY · page hash 9a6ccfd5ea85

History

  1. v1created

    Derived from collector run commerce-20260805053004.

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  • accessibility
  • compliance
  • ada
  • risk
  • corridor
  • k-beauty
  • beauty

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“Accessibility statements split sharply by origin”, The Orbt Market Index 0.1.0, entry omr:kr-us:accessibility-statements-split-by-origin, retrieved September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/kr-us--accessibility-statements-split-by-origin. Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22679129

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