accessibility

accessibility is a cursor rule for Cursor from girijashankarj/cursor-handbook. It costs 0 tokens per session (451 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Accessibility (a11y) rules for frontend components. Apply when editing UI or markup.

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/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/accessibility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook

Made for: Cursor.

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.

agentmods badge for accessibility

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/accessibility.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/accessibility)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/accessibility"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/accessibility.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 451 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00451
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured today against content hash cb238ebef319, 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 today.

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/frontend/accessibility.mdc · 50 lines

What it actually says

Accessibility Rules

WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance (Minimum)

Semantic HTML

  • Use semantic elements: <nav>, <main>, <article>, <section>, <aside>
  • Use heading hierarchy: <h1><h2><h3> (never skip levels)
  • Use <button> for actions, <a> for navigation — never swap them
  • Use <label> for all form inputs with htmlFor attribute
  • Use <fieldset> and <legend> for related form groups

ARIA Attributes

  • Add aria-label to icon-only buttons
  • Use aria-live regions for dynamic content updates
  • Add role attributes when semantic HTML isn't sufficient
  • Use aria-expanded for collapsible sections
  • Use aria-describedby for complex form validation messages

Keyboard Navigation

  • All interactive elements MUST be keyboard accessible
  • Visible focus indicators on all focusable elements
  • Logical tab order (avoid tabIndex > 0)
  • Escape key closes modals and dropdowns
  • Enter/Space activates buttons and links

Visual

  • Minimum contrast ratio: 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text
  • Don't convey information through color alone — use icons or text
  • Support text zoom up to 200% without loss of content
  • Provide text alternatives for all images: alt attribute
  • Animated content must be pausable

Forms

  • Clear error messages linked to the field via aria-describedby
  • Required fields marked with aria-required="true"
  • Form validation errors announced to screen readers
  • Autofill support for common fields (name, email, address)

Testing

  • Test with keyboard navigation
  • Test with screen readers (VoiceOver, NVDA)
  • Use axe-core or Lighthouse for automated a11y audits
  • Include a11y tests in CI pipeline
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. today First seen · 50 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A cb238ebef319

Subscribe to this mod's changes

accessibility is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository girijashankarj/cursor-handbook (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 451 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 2026-09-03.