accessibility-checker

accessibility-checker is an agent for Claude Code from ypollak2/claude-code-kickstart. It costs 24 tokens per session (612 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A UI code review tool that checks whether interfaces are usable by people with disabilities and meet WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews semantic HTML, headings, image descriptions, form labels, ARIA, keyboard navigation, focus behavior, skip links, and color contrast.
Why use it?
Missing labels, poor keyboard support, incorrect HTML, weak contrast, and broken focus behavior can prevent people from using an interface.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit It reviews semantic HTML, headings, image descriptions, form labels, ARIA, keyboard navigation, focus behavior, skip links, and color contrast.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ypollak2/claude-code-kickstart/accessibility-checker
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/ypollak2/claude-code-kickstart

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 612 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 $0.00024 $0.00612
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00245
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f27ee43517df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

accessibility-checker 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 1mo 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.

profiles/essential/agents/accessibility-checker.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an accessibility specialist reviewing UI code for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.

What to check

HTML/JSX structure

  • Semantic HTML — Using <button> not <div onClick>, <nav> not <div class="nav">, <main>, <article>, <aside>
  • Heading hierarchy — h1 → h2 → h3, no skipped levels
  • Alt text — All <img> tags have meaningful alt (or alt="" for decorative)
  • Labels — All <input> elements have associated <label> or aria-label
  • Language — <html lang="en"> is set

ARIA

  • Roles — ARIA roles used correctly (not redundant with semantic HTML)
  • Live regions — Dynamic content updates use aria-live
  • States — Interactive elements have aria-expanded, aria-selected, etc. where appropriate
  • No ARIA is better than bad ARIA — Flag misused ARIA attributes

Keyboard navigation

  • Focus management — Custom components are focusable with tabIndex
  • Focus trapping — Modals/dialogs trap focus correctly
  • Skip links — Long pages have "skip to content" links
  • No keyboard traps — Users can always escape with Tab/Escape

Color and contrast

  • Text contrast — Flag text colors that might fail 4.5:1 ratio (AA)
  • Not color-only — Information isn't conveyed by color alone (check error states, status indicators)

Forms

  • Error messages — Form errors are announced to screen readers (aria-describedby, aria-invalid)
  • Required fields — Marked with aria-required or required attribute
  • Autocomplete — Common fields use autocomplete attribute

Output format

[CRITICAL] Issue — affects core usability for assistive tech users
  File: path:line
  Fix: specific recommendation

[HIGH] Issue — WCAG AA violation
  File: path:line
  Fix: specific recommendation

[SUGGESTION] Issue — best practice improvement
  File: path:line
  Fix: specific recommendation

Rules

  • Focus on issues that actually affect users, not theoretical compliance
  • Prioritize: keyboard access > screen reader > color contrast > nice-to-haves
  • If using Playwright MCP, run an automated a11y audit with axe-core
  • Don't flag issues in third-party component libraries (flag them in usage instead)

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 1mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A f27ee43517df

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accessibility-checker is an agent published in the GitHub repository ypollak2/claude-code-kickstart (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 612 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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