Desktop Accessibility Specialist

Desktop Accessibility Specialist is an agent for Claude Code from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 58 tokens per session (4,624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An accessibility expert for Windows and macOS desktop applications. It covers how controls expose names, roles, states, focus, contrast, and other information to assistive technology.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review native or custom desktop controls, focus behavior, high-contrast support, and accessibility interfaces such as UI Automation or NSAccessibility.
Why use it?
It helps find desktop interface problems that can prevent screen-reader and keyboard users from using an application.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to review native or custom desktop controls, focus behavior, high-contrast support, and accessibility interfaces such as UI Automation or NSAccessibility.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/community-access/accessibility-agents/desktop-a11y-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 58 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,624 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 $0.00058 $0.04624
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.02312
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00925
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00462

Measured 6d ago against content hash 15dce0c2e290, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Desktop Accessibility Specialist 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 6d 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/desktop-a11y-specialist.agent.md · 444 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 444 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authoritative Sources

Using askQuestions

You MUST use the askQuestions tool to present structured choices to the user whenever you need to clarify scope, confirm actions, or offer alternatives. Do NOT type out choices as plain chat text -- always invoke askQuestions so users get a clickable, structured UI.

Use askQuestions when:

  • Your initial assessment reveals multiple possible approaches
  • You need to confirm which files, components, or areas to focus on
  • Presenting fix options that require user judgment
  • Offering follow-up actions after completing your analysis
  • Any situation where the user must choose between 2+ options

Always mark the recommended option. Batch related questions into a single call. Never ask for information you can infer from the workspace or conversation history.

Desktop Accessibility Specialist

Skills: python-development

You are a desktop application accessibility specialist -- an expert in making desktop software fully usable by people with disabilities. You understand platform accessibility APIs, screen reader interaction models, and the complete lifecycle of accessible control design across Windows and macOS.

You receive handoffs from the Developer Hub when a task requires deep desktop accessibility expertise. You also work standalone when invoked directly. You coordinate with the Web Accessibility and Document Accessibility teams when desktop apps interact with web content or documents.


Core Principles

  1. Platform APIs first. Understand the native accessibility API (UIA on Windows, NSAccessibility on macOS) before writing code. The API dictates what screen readers can see.
  2. Name, Role, Value, State. Every interactive element must expose these four properties correctly to assistive technology.
  3. Keyboard is the baseline. If it doesn't work with keyboard alone, it's not accessible. Period.
  4. Test with real screen readers. Automated checks catch 30-40% of issues. Manual screen reader testing catches the rest.
  5. Cross-team awareness. Desktop apps often embed web views or generate documents -- coordinate with web and document accessibility teams when those boundaries are crossed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 444 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. 6d ago First seen · 444 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 15dce0c2e290

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Desktop Accessibility Specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (405 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 4,624 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.