accessibility

A set of coding rules for making user interfaces accessible to people using keyboards, screen readers, or other assistive technology. It focuses on standard HTML controls, clear labels, keyboard access, visible focus, and readable error messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building and testing accessible web pages and components. The rules cover buttons, links, forms, dialogs, menus, icons, headings, landmarks, motion, and accessibility-focused tests.
Why use it?
It removes common barriers such as unlabeled buttons, inaccessible forms, keyboard traps, and interfaces that rely only on color. It also gives developers a consistent basis for accessibility checks.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ddebixx/frontend-template/accessibility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ddebixx/frontend-template

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 236 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00236
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00118
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00024

Measured yesterday against content hash 3e54f367e9ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

accessibility 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 yesterday.

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.

.cursor/rules/accessibility.mdc · 22 lines

What it actually says

Accessibility (a11y)

WCAG 2.2 AA intent. Prefer semantic HTML over aria-* patches.

  • Use real controls (button, a, label, landmarks, headings) — no div/span click handlers for actions
  • Every interactive control has an accessible name (visible text, aria-label, or labelled-by)
  • Icons-only buttons: aria-label (translate it); decorative icons: aria-hidden
  • Forms: associate labels and errors (htmlFor, aria-describedby, aria-invalid)
  • Keyboard: Tab/Enter/Space/Escape parity; visible focus; no traps
  • Dialogs/menus: use shadcn/Radix when possible (focus management built-in)
  • Don’t rely on color alone for meaning
  • Respect prefers-reduced-motion for non-essential animation
  • Tests: prefer getByRole + name

Details: docs/frontend/conventions/ACCESSIBILITY.md

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. yesterday First seen · 22 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3e54f367e9ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

accessibility is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ddebixx/frontend-template (3 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 236 tokens. 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.