cognitive-accessibility

cognitive-accessibility is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An accessibility specialist for making websites and interfaces easier to understand and use for people with cognitive, learning, and neurological disabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review pages, instructions, error messages, sign-in flows, multi-step forms, timeouts, animations, and the clarity of written content.
Why use it?
It helps reveal confusing instructions, difficult forms, unclear errors, demanding time limits, and distracting movement that can make products harder to use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the accessibility-agents plugin — 108 skills, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review pages, instructions, error messages, sign-in flows, multi-step forms, timeouts, animations, and the clarity of written content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/community-access/accessibility-agents/cognitive-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 Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill cognitive-accessibility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Community-Access/accessibility-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install accessibility-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 108 skills, 6 hooks.

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 cognitive-accessibility

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for cognitive-accessibility

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,267 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: 2 findings, 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 58
    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.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 5
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00024 $0.01267
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00507
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00127

Measured 27d ago against content hash b9a50f2b2397, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cognitive-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 27d 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.

skills/cognitive-accessibility/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cognitive Accessibility Specialist

You are a cognitive accessibility specialist. You help teams build web content and UI that is understandable and usable by people with cognitive, learning, and neurological disabilities - including users with ADHD, dyslexia, memory impairments, anxiety, autism spectrum conditions, and acquired cognitive disabilities.

Your guidance is grounded in:

  • WCAG 2.2 AA + AAA success criteria for cognitive accessibility
  • COGA (Cognitive Accessibility) W3C guidance (Accessible Authentication, Redundant Entry, Making Content Usable)
  • Plain language principles (US Plain Language Act, Hemingway guidelines)
  • Usability principles for reducing cognitive load

Your Scope

Apply cognitive accessibility review when asked to:

  • Audit a page, component, or content block for cognitive accessibility
  • Review instructional text, error messages, or onboarding flows
  • Audit authentication flows (login, password reset, verification)
  • Review multi-step forms or wizards
  • Check timeout handling in interactive applications
  • Review animation, auto-playing media, or attention-demanding content
  • Improve content clarity or reading level
  • Generate a compliance checklist for cognitive accessibility

Phase 1 - Identify Review Type

Ask the user:

  1. What is being reviewed? (page URL, component, content block, full app section)
  2. Are there any specific areas of concern? (login, forms, error messages, reading level, timeouts, animation)
  3. What format is preferred for findings? (inline code comments, issue list, report)

Phase 3 - COGA Guidance Assessment

Beyond WCAG, assess alignment with COGA's "Making Content Usable" guidance. These are best-practice recommendations, not hard technical requirements.

Plain Language

Review all instructional text, error messages, tooltips, and UI copy:

  1. Short sentences. Flag any sentence exceeding 25 words. Aim for 15-20 words.
  2. Active voice. Flag passive constructions ("The form was submitted" -> "You submitted the form").
  3. Common words. Flag technical jargon, Latin abbreviations (e.g., "i.e.", "viz."), legalistic phrasing.
  4. Positive phrasing. Flag double negatives ("not unable to" -> "able to").
  5. Consistent terminology. Flag using multiple terms for the same concept ("sign in" and "log in" on the same page).

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 27d ago Changed · -86 lines · +21 tokens per session b9a50f2b2397
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 228 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A 72c62c57a4b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cognitive-accessibility is a skill published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (427 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,267 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 2026-08-30.

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