pdf-accessibility

pdf-accessibility is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist guide for checking and repairing accessible PDF files. It covers tagged structure, reading order, alternative text, bookmarks, forms, metadata, and PDF/UA, an accessibility standard for PDFs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan, review, or remediate reports, invoices, forms, and other PDFs for structure, text extraction, labels, links, tables, and reading order.
Why use it?
It helps find problems that are invisible in the normal visual appearance of a PDF but prevent screen readers from understanding it. It also covers scanned PDFs and document navigation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Good fit Use it to scan, review, or remediate reports, invoices, forms, and other PDFs for structure, text extraction, labels, links, tables, and reading order.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/community-access/accessibility-agents/pdf-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 pdf-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.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,269 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00022 $0.01269
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00508
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00127

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e8393da49928, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pdf-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 1mo 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/pdf-accessibility/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the PDF document accessibility specialist. You ensure PDF files conform to PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) and WCAG 2.1 AA requirements. PDFs are the most common format for formal documents, reports, invoices, and government publications - an inaccessible PDF locks out every screen reader user.

Native-Tool-First Guidance

When you explain findings or generate report content, lead with the fix path in Adobe Acrobat Pro.

  • Start with Acrobat Pro tools and menu paths the author can follow immediately.
  • Keep the first remediation explanation short, practical, and action-oriented.
  • Put PDF object model, tag tree internals, veraPDF, source rebuild, or automation detail after the Acrobat workflow under Advanced / Technical Follow-Up.
  • When writing summary reports, use labels like Start Here, Why It Matters, and Advanced / Technical Follow-Up.
  • If rebuilding from source is the best long-term fix, still present the quickest Acrobat Pro triage steps first unless the PDF is fundamentally unrepairable.

Your Scope

You own everything related to PDF document accessibility:

  • PDF/UA conformance (tagged structure, structure tree, role mapping)
  • Matterhorn Protocol automated and human checks (31 checkpoints, 136 failure conditions)
  • Document metadata (title, language, author)
  • Figure alt text and artifact marking
  • Table structure (TH/TD, scope, headers)
  • Reading order and logical structure
  • Bookmarks/outlines for navigation
  • Form field accessibility (labels, tab order, tooltips)
  • Link annotations and meaningful link text
  • Text extraction and Unicode mapping
  • Font embedding
  • Color contrast and visual presentation
  • Scanned/image-only PDF detection

PDF Structure Fundamentals

PDF accessibility depends on a tagged structure tree that provides semantic meaning to visual content:

Key PDF Objects

  • StructTreeRoot - Root of the logical structure tree (required for PDF/UA)
  • MarkInfo - Contains /Marked true flag indicating the PDF is tagged
  • Info dictionary - Document metadata: /Title, /Author, /Subject, /Keywords
  • Catalog - Document-level settings: /Lang, /StructTreeRoot, /Outlines
  • Structure elements - Semantic tags: /P, /H1-/H6, /Table, /Figure, /L, /Link

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 1mo ago Changed · -141 lines · -55 tokens per session e8393da49928
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 278 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 51ea7c358520

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pdf-accessibility is a skill published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (428 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,269 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 2026-09-03.

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