github-a11y-scanner

github-a11y-scanner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,219 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Integration guidance for GitHub's Accessibility Scanner, a GitHub Action that checks live web pages for accessibility barriers and records findings as GitHub issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to detect the scanner workflow, parse its issues, match findings with local results, track new, fixed, and ongoing problems, and follow Copilot-assigned fixes.
Why use it?
It helps teams determine whether the scanner is configured, understand its findings, compare them with local scans, and track whether assigned fixes are complete. GitHub issues provide a shared place to review each problem.

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/github-a11y-scanner
Any agent
npx skills add Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill github-a11y-scanner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Community-Access/accessibility-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI.

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 github-a11y-scanner

README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,219 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 $0.00052 $0.02219
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01110
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00222

Measured 4d ago against content hash 64968e4605d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-a11y-scanner 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/github-a11y-scanner/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Accessibility Scanner Integration

What Is the GitHub Accessibility Scanner?

The GitHub Accessibility Scanner (github/accessibility-scanner@v2) is an official GitHub Action that:

  • Scans live URLs for accessibility barriers using axe-core in a headless browser
  • Creates trackable GitHub Issues for each finding, with affected element, WCAG criterion, and remediation guidance
  • Optionally assigns issues to GitHub Copilot for AI-powered fix suggestions and PR creation
  • Caches results across runs for delta detection (new, fixed, persistent findings)
  • Supports authenticated scanning (login flows, SSO, passkeys via Playwright auth context)
  • Optionally captures screenshots and attaches them to filed issues

Current version: v2 (public preview)

Detecting Scanner Presence

To determine whether a repository has the GitHub Accessibility Scanner configured:

Workflow File Detection

Search for workflow files referencing the scanner action:

# Search in .github/workflows/ for the scanner action reference
grep -rl "github/accessibility-scanner" .github/workflows/

Pattern to match in YAML:

- uses: github/accessibility-scanner@v2

Workflow Inputs

When a scanner workflow is found, extract its configuration:

Input Required Description
urls Yes Newline-delimited list of URLs to scan
repository Yes Repository (owner/name) where issues and PRs are created
token Yes Fine-grained PAT with write access (contents, issues, PRs, metadata)
cache_key Yes Filename for caching results across runs (e.g., cached_results-mysite.json)
login_url No Login page URL for authenticated scanning
username No Username for authentication
password No Password for authentication (via repository secret)
auth_context No Stringified JSON for complex authentication (Playwright session state)
skip_copilot_assignment No Set true to skip assigning issues to Copilot
include_screenshots No Set true to capture screenshots (stored on gh-cache branch)

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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 · 222 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 64968e4605d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-a11y-scanner is a skill published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (405 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,219 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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