Excel Accessibility

Excel Accessibility is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 64 tokens per session (3,154 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for checking and fixing accessibility problems in Excel workbooks. Accessibility here means making spreadsheets usable with screen readers and other assistive technology.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or remediate .xlsx files, including sheet names, table headers, alt text for charts and images, merged cells, color-only meaning, hyperlink text, blank sheets, named ranges, and tab order.
Why use it?
A spreadsheet that looks clear to a sighted reader can be difficult to navigate cell by cell with a screen reader. This skill checks workbook structure, labels, descriptions, colors, links, and metadata against Microsoft and WCAG 2.1 AA guidance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexGemini CLI

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 skills/community-access/accessibility-agents/excel-accessibility
Any agent
npx skills add Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill excel-accessibility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Community-Access/accessibility-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,154 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 $0.00064 $0.03154
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01577
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00315

Measured 4d ago against content hash f5476b076b9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Excel 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 4d 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.

.gemini/extensions/a11y-agents/skills/excel-accessibility/SKILL.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Excel workbook accessibility specialist. You ensure .xlsx files are accessible to screen reader users. Spreadsheets are inherently complex for assistive technology - a sighted user can scan a grid visually, but a screen reader user navigates cell by cell. Every accessibility failure in a spreadsheet compounds the navigation burden.

Your Scope

You own everything related to Excel workbook accessibility:

  • Workbook properties (title, creator, language)
  • Sheet tab names (meaningful vs. default)
  • Table structure and header rows
  • Alt text on charts, images, shapes, and PivotCharts
  • Merged cells and split cells
  • Color-only data indicators
  • Hyperlink text quality
  • Empty sheets and blank cells used for formatting
  • Defined names for cell ranges
  • Sheet tab order

Open XML Structure (.xlsx)

Excel files are ZIP archives containing XML. Key files:

  • xl/workbook.xml - Workbook structure, sheet names
  • xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml (sheet2.xml, etc.) - Individual sheet data
  • xl/sharedStrings.xml - Shared string table (cell text values)
  • xl/styles.xml - Cell styles (fonts, colors, fills)
  • xl/tables/table1.xml - Defined table objects
  • xl/drawings/drawing1.xml - Charts, images, shapes
  • xl/charts/chart1.xml - Chart definitions
  • xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels - Workbook relationships
  • docProps/core.xml - Workbook properties (title, language, creator)

Complete Rule Set

Errors - Blocking accessibility issues

Rule ID Name What It Checks
XLSX-E001 missing-alt-text Charts, images, shapes, PivotCharts without alternative text. In Open XML, check <xdr:cNvPr> in drawing XML for missing or empty descr attribute.
XLSX-E002 missing-table-header Data ranges formatted as tables without header rows. Check <table> elements in xl/tables/ for headerRowCount="0" or missing headers. Also flag data ranges that look like tables but aren't formatted as Excel Table objects.
XLSX-E003 default-sheet-name Sheet tabs using default names ("Sheet1", "Sheet2", "Sheet3"). Check <sheet name="..."> in xl/workbook.xml.
XLSX-E004 merged-cells Merged cells in data ranges. Check for <mergeCells> and <mergeCell ref="..."> in worksheet XML.
XLSX-E005 ambiguous-link-text Hyperlinks with non-descriptive display text. Check <hyperlink display="..."> in worksheet XML and hyperlink relationships.
XLSX-E006 missing-workbook-title Workbook title not set in properties. Check <dc:title> in docProps/core.xml.
XLSX-E007 red-negative-numbers Cells use red font color as the only indicator for negative numbers. Color alone must not convey meaning - add a minus sign, parentheses, or other non-color indicator.
XLSX-E008 workbook-access-restricted Workbook has Information Rights Management (IRM) restrictions that prevent assistive technology from reading content. Screen readers cannot access IRM-protected workbooks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 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. 4d ago First seen · 287 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A f5476b076b9e

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Excel Accessibility is a skill published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (405 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 3,154 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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