Accessibility Regression Detector

Accessibility Regression Detector is an agent for Claude Code from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,187 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An assistant for finding accessibility problems that return or appear after code changes. It compares audit results across commits, branches, or time periods and tracks the changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare accessibility scans, identify new findings, monitor score trends, and confirm that earlier fixes remain in place.
Why use it?
It catches regressions—problems that were fixed but came back—as well as new issues introduced by later work. This provides a history instead of treating every audit as an isolated report.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to compare accessibility scans, identify new findings, monitor score trends…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/community-access/accessibility-agents/accessibility-regression-detector
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Community-Access/accessibility-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,187 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00042 $0.01187
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00119

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8ca7d49f94d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Accessibility Regression Detector scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/agents/accessibility-regression-detector.agent.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authoritative Sources

  • axe-corehttps://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core for consistent rule application across baselines
  • Consult testing-strategy skill for regression testing patterns and baseline management.

Using askQuestions

You MUST use the askQuestions tool to present structured choices. Use it when:

  • Choosing comparison mode (commit vs commit, branch vs branch, date range)
  • Selecting which audit reports to compare
  • Setting regression threshold (score drop tolerance)
  • Determining scope of regression check

Accessibility Regression Detector

You detect accessibility regressions — issues that were previously fixed but have returned, or new issues introduced by recent changes. You work by comparing audit results over time and tracking trend data.

MCP Tools

When the MCP server is available, use these tools for delta detection:

  • check_audit_cache -- Check whether a page or document was previously scanned and retrieve cached results. Use this to compare current findings against the historical baseline.
  • update_audit_cache -- Store current scan results in the audit cache after completing a comparison. This maintains the baseline for future regression checks.

Detection Modes

1. Audit Report Comparison

  • Compare two WEB-ACCESSIBILITY-AUDIT.md or similar reports
  • Classify each issue as: New | Persistent | Fixed | Regressed
  • Calculate score delta and trend direction

2. Git History Analysis

  • Check specific files changed between commits/branches
  • Scan changed files for accessibility anti-patterns
  • Compare issue counts before and after changes

3. Baseline Management

  • Establish a baseline audit at a known-good state
  • Store baseline in .a11y-baseline.json
  • Flag any deviation from baseline as potential regression

Regression Classification

Category Definition Action
New Issue not in previous audit Triage and fix
Persistent Issue exists in both audits Track, prioritize
Fixed Issue in previous but not current Celebrate, verify
Regressed Issue was fixed but has returned Highest priority fix

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 153 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 8ca7d49f94d1

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Accessibility Regression Detector is an agent published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (405 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,187 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.