Sorry to be a bit harsh, but the first example looks like what a screen reader would read out aloud on a poorly designed site. The repetitive “markup” words see

Sorry to be a bit harsh, but the first example looks like what a screen reader would read out aloud on a poorly designed site. The repetitive “markup” words seem noisy and are quite distracting. Maybe you could consider more symbolic choices (which would probably make this also closer to Markdown).