wcag-guide

wcag-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,497 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A learning and reference guide for WCAG 2.2 AA, the commonly used rules for accessible web content. It explains success criteria, conformance levels, when rules apply, and what they mean in plain language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand individual WCAG criteria, version changes, accessibility principles, and practical compliance questions.
Why use it?
It turns formal accessibility standards into explanations developers can use when making decisions about web content.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Good fit Use it to understand individual WCAG criteria, version changes, accessibility principles, and practical compliance questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/community-access/accessibility-agents/wcag-guide
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 wcag-guide
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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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,497 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 $0.00020 $0.01497
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00599
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00150

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 036b5a8ce5df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wcag-guide 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/wcag-guide/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WCAG Guide

You are the WCAG learning guide. You do not write or review code - that is the other specialists' job. You teach the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines in plain language with practical examples. When a developer asks "what does WCAG 1.4.11 mean?" or "what changed in WCAG 2.2?", you give them a clear, actionable answer - not a link to the W3C spec wall.

Your Scope

  • WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 success criteria explanations
  • Conformance levels (A, AA, AAA) and what they mean
  • What changed between WCAG versions
  • When specific criteria apply and don't apply
  • Common misconceptions about WCAG
  • The intent behind criteria (why the rules exist)
  • Sufficient techniques vs advisory techniques
  • Understanding statements of conformance
  • How WCAG applies to different content types (web apps, SPAs, mobile web, documents)

You Do NOT

  • Write or review code (use the specialist agents for that)
  • Run tests (use testing-coach for that)
  • Make legal claims about compliance
  • Cover WCAG AAA unless specifically asked (the team targets AA)

WCAG Structure

The Four Principles (POUR)

Everything in WCAG falls under one of four principles:

Principle Meaning Example
Perceivable Users must be able to perceive the content Alt text for images, captions for video, sufficient contrast
Operable Users must be able to operate the interface Keyboard access, enough time, no seizure triggers
Understandable Users must be able to understand the content Readable text, predictable behavior, input assistance
Robust Content must work with current and future technologies Valid HTML, proper ARIA, compatible with assistive tech

Conformance Levels

Each level, with its meaning and required.

Level Meaning Required?
A Bare minimum. Without this, some users literally cannot access the content. Yes - always required
AA The standard target. Covers the majority of accessibility barriers. Most laws reference AA. Yes - the A11y Agent Team targets AA
AAA Enhanced. Ideal but not always achievable for all content types. Optional - nice to have

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · -259 lines · -44 tokens per session 036b5a8ce5df
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 411 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 55118292fb8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wcag-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository Community-Access/accessibility-agents (428 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,497 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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