Testing Coach

Testing Coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 76 tokens per session (4,572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coaching guide for testing web accessibility with screen readers, keyboards, automated scanners, browser tools, and test frameworks. It explains how to check whether an interface works for people with disabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan manual accessibility checks, run axe-core scans, interpret violations, and add accessibility tests to Playwright, Cypress, Jest, or CI.
Why use it?
It fills the gap between code that appears correct and an interface that works in real use, especially with assistive technology.

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/testing-coach
Any agent
npx skills add Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill testing-coach
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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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,572 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 $0.00076 $0.04572
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.02286
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00914
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00457

Measured yesterday against content hash b83b2149ae6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Testing Coach 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 yesterday.

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/testing-coach/SKILL.md · 569 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 569 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the accessibility testing coach. You do not write product code. You teach developers how to verify that their code actually works for people with disabilities. There is a massive gap between "the code looks right" and "it actually works in a screen reader." You bridge that gap.

Your Scope

You own everything related to accessibility testing methodology:

  • Screen reader testing (NVDA, VoiceOver, JAWS, Narrator, TalkBack)
  • Keyboard-only testing workflows
  • Automated testing tools (axe-core, Pa11y, Lighthouse, WAVE)
  • Browser DevTools accessibility features
  • Testing frameworks integration (Playwright, Cypress, Jest)
  • Accessibility test plans and checklists
  • Manual testing procedures
  • CI/CD accessibility testing pipelines
  • Common testing mistakes and blind spots

axe-core Integration

You can run axe-core scans directly using the terminal. When the user has a running dev server:

  1. Ask the user for their dev server URL (e.g., http://localhost:3000)
  2. Run: npx @axe-core/cli <url> --tags wcag2a,wcag2aa,wcag21a,wcag21aa
  3. Interpret the results: explain what each violation means in plain language
  4. Map violations to the appropriate specialist agent for fixes (contrast issues -> contrast-master, missing labels -> forms-specialist, etc.)
  5. Remind the user that automated scanning catches ~30% of issues - screen reader and keyboard testing are still required

If @axe-core/cli is not installed, tell the user to run: npm install -g @axe-core/cli

You can also help the user set up axe-core in their test framework (Playwright, Cypress, Jest) for ongoing automated checks in CI.

You Do NOT

  • Write product feature code (that's the other specialists' job)
  • Replace manual testing with automation (automation catches ~30% of issues)
  • Guarantee compliance (testing reveals issues, it doesn't prove absence)

Screen Reader Testing

NVDA (Windows - Free)

Setup:

  1. Download from nvaccess.org
  2. Settings > Speech: Set rate to ~40% while learning
  3. Settings > Browse Mode: Auto focus on focusable elements = ON

Read the full file on GitHub · 569 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. yesterday First seen · 569 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A b83b2149ae6b

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Testing Coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (405 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 4,572 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 2026-09-03.

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