captions-media-accessibility

captions-media-accessibility is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 94 tokens per session (6,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for adding captions, subtitles, transcripts, and other accessibility tracks to video and audio. It accounts for the media type, audience need, delivery platform, and content risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning, writing, reviewing, localising, burning in, or exporting captions and related accessibility materials for media.
Why use it?
It helps prevent accessibility assets from being treated as a last-minute detail and highlights issues such as multiple speakers, visual text, music, and flashing content.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Planning, writing, reviewing, localising, burning in, or exporting captions and related accessibility materials for media.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/captions-media-accessibility
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.

Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill captions-media-accessibility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,002 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 292
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00094 $0.06002
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.03001
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00600

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9196bf1b4547, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

captions-media-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/validate_captions.py, tests/test_validate_captions.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/production/audio-craft/captions-media-accessibility/SKILL.md · 399 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 399 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Captions and media accessibility direction

Treat captions and accessibility tracks as production assets, not polish. Build them from the script, audio mix, edit, localization plan, and platform delivery target. If the user asks for legal compliance, say what standards you are using and recommend review by qualified accessibility/legal counsel; do not promise legal compliance from a generated file alone.

Start by classifying the media

Before writing or exporting captions, identify:

  • Content type: prerecorded video with audio, live/near-live video, audio-only, video-only, or silent social cut.
  • Audience need: captions for deaf/hard-of-hearing viewers, translated subtitles for hearing viewers, SDH, transcript, descriptive transcript, audio description, sign language, or platform-default auto captions.
  • Delivery target: social burn-in, web player sidecar, broadcast/OTT, LMS/training portal, internal review, localized package, or archival master.
  • Accessibility risk: essential visual text, charts, screen recordings, multiple speakers, overlapping dialogue, music/lyrics, sound-driven story beats, flashing/strobe, fast kinetic typography, low contrast, small mobile screens, or platform UI overlays.
  • Final-source truth: the locked audio mix and final picture. Generated scripts, TTS drafts, and ASR transcripts are starting points, not the authority after edits.

Documented facts to preserve

Use these as factual constraints when relevant, citing the source in your output or handoff notes when the claim matters.

  • WCAG 2.2 requires captions for prerecorded audio in synchronized media at Level A (SC 1.2.2), captions for live synchronized audio at Level AA (SC 1.2.4), and audio description for prerecorded video at Level AA (SC 1.2.5). WCAG Level A allows either audio description or a media alternative for prerecorded synchronized video under SC 1.2.3. Source: W3C WCAG 2.2, verified 2026-07-10.
  • WCAG 2.2 flashing guidance says content must not flash more than three times in any one-second period unless below the general/red flash thresholds. Source: W3C Understanding SC 2.3.1, verified 2026-07-10.
  • WCAG contrast minimum for text is 4.5:1, with 3:1 for large-scale text. This is a web-text criterion; burned-in captions are video pixels, but use it as the minimum design target for caption readability unless a stricter platform/spec applies. Source: W3C WCAG 2.2 SC 1.4.3, verified 2026-07-10.
  • Section508.gov distinguishes closed captions, open captions, subtitles, and transcripts: closed captions can be turned on/off; open captions are permanent in the video; subtitles usually translate dialogue for hearing audiences and do not normally include speaker IDs or non-speech audio; transcripts are not time-coded. Source: Section508.gov synchronized media guidance, verified 2026-07-10.
  • U.S. FCC caption quality rules for covered television programming define quality around accuracy, synchronicity, completeness, and placement; captions should include relevant nonverbal information, be legible, and avoid blocking essential visual content. Source: 47 CFR Sec. 79.1 via Legal Information Institute/eCFR text, verified 2026-07-10. This skill does not determine whether a specific project is covered by FCC rules.
  • YouTube Help listed SRT and SBV/SubViewer as basic formats and WebVTT/TTML/SAMI/RealText as advanced formats; basic SRT/SBV files must be plain UTF-8 and YouTube notes that styling support is limited. Source: YouTube Help, verified 2026-07-10.
  • Vimeo Help stated that Vimeo supports SRT and WebVTT for captions/subtitles, recommends WebVTT, and requires UTF-8 encoding for special characters. Source: Vimeo Help, verified 2026-07-10.
  • WebVTT is a UTF-8 timed-text format used with media tracks; it begins with WEBVTT, contains timed cues, and can be used for captions, subtitles, descriptions, chapters, or metadata depending on player support. Sources: W3C/MDN and Library of Congress WebVTT documentation, verified 2026-07-10.
  • W3C WebVTT syntax requires UTF-8, a WEBVTT file signature, cue timings with period milliseconds, ordered cue start times, and end times greater than start times. Cue overlap is allowed by the format for captions/subtitles, but many caption delivery workflows still reject or flag overlaps. Source: W3C WebVTT Candidate Recommendation Draft, verified 2026-07-11.
  • SRT is a widely used but lightly standardized plain-text sidecar convention made of repeated blocks: numeric counter, start/end timing line, caption text, and a blank-line separator. Common delivery practice uses HH:MM:SS,mmm --> HH:MM:SS,mmm timing and UTF-8 for modern platform upload, even though legacy SRT files may use other encodings. Source: Library of Congress SRT format description plus platform guidance already cited here, verified 2026-07-11.
  • Netflix timed-text guidance is platform-specific, not universal law. Its public partner help guidance includes 2-line maximums, language-specific style guides, minimum/maximum event durations in general requirements, and U.S. English SDH conventions for bracketed speaker IDs/sound effects. Source: Netflix Partner Help Center, verified 2026-07-10.

Read the full file on GitHub · 399 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 399 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 9196bf1b4547

Subscribe to this mod's changes

captions-media-accessibility is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 6,002 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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