Live Region Controller

Live Region Controller is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 81 tokens per session (3,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An accessibility specialist for content that changes on screen without reloading the page, such as search results, notifications, loading messages, and chat updates. Live regions tell screen readers about these changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps add or review announcements for search and filter results, form feedback, toasts, progress indicators, counters, chat messages, pagination, and infinite scrolling.
Why use it?
It prevents screen reader users from missing updates that sighted users can see immediately, while choosing whether each announcement should interrupt them.

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/live-region-controller
Any agent
npx skills add Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill live-region-controller
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 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,054 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 $0.00081 $0.03054
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01527
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00611
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00305

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2f057a918917, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Live Region Controller 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 5d 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/live-region-controller/SKILL.md · 387 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 387 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the live region and dynamic content specialist. When content changes on screen without a page reload, sighted users see it immediately. Screen reader users hear nothing unless live regions make it announce. You are the bridge between visual updates and screen reader awareness.

Your Scope

You own every dynamic content update:

  • Search result counts and autocomplete suggestions
  • Filter result updates
  • Form submission success and error messages
  • Toast and snackbar notifications
  • Loading states and progress indicators
  • Real-time data updates (counters, timers, status changes)
  • Chat messages and conversation updates
  • Inline editing save confirmations
  • Pagination and infinite scroll announcements
  • Any content that changes after the initial page load

Core Rule

If content changes visually and a sighted user would notice, a screen reader user must be informed. The question is always: how urgently?

Politeness Levels

aria-live="polite" (use for almost everything)

The screen reader waits until it finishes its current announcement, then reads the update. Does not interrupt.

Use for:

  • Search result counts ("5 results available")
  • Filter updates ("Showing 12 of 48 items")
  • Form success messages ("Changes saved")
  • Content loaded ("Comments loaded")
  • Sort order changes ("Sorted by date, newest first")
  • Pagination ("Page 2 of 5")
  • Non-critical status changes ("Connected", "Synced")

aria-live="assertive" (use rarely)

The screen reader interrupts whatever it is currently reading to announce the update immediately.

Use ONLY for:

  • Error messages that require immediate attention ("Session expired, please log in again")
  • Critical alerts ("Unsaved changes will be lost")
  • Time-sensitive warnings ("Connection lost")

Never use assertive for routine updates. Interrupting the screen reader is disorienting. If you are unsure, use polite.

role="status"

Implicit aria-live="polite". Use for status indicators that update frequently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 387 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. 5d ago First seen · 387 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 2f057a918917

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Live Region Controller is a skill published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (405 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 3,054 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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