diff --git a/guidelines/guidelines.css b/guidelines/guidelines.css
index 2b29e5330a..e7ca78324b 100644
--- a/guidelines/guidelines.css
+++ b/guidelines/guidelines.css
@@ -3,7 +3,13 @@
 }
 
 .change {
-	display:inline;
+    display: inline;
+    color: #fff;
+    background: #B50000;
+    border-radius: 0.25em;
+    padding: 0.25em 0.4em;
+    margin: 0 0.25em 0 0;
+    font-weight: bold;
 }
 
 .new {
diff --git a/script/wcag.js b/script/wcag.js
index dbb4d64bd5..8193d6ae71 100644
--- a/script/wcag.js
+++ b/script/wcag.js
@@ -33,11 +33,6 @@ function linkUnderstanding() {
 }
 
 function addTextSemantics() {
-	// put brackets around the change marker
-	document.querySelectorAll('p.change').forEach(function(node){
-		var change = node.textContent;
-		node.textContent = "[" + change + "]";
-	})
 	// put level before and parentheses around the conformance level marker
 	document.querySelectorAll('p.conformance-level').forEach(function(node){
 		var level = node.textContent;