a11y-review

a11y-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from int2t05/engineering-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,257 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of a website or application for accessibility, meaning whether people with disabilities can use it. It covers standards such as WCAG, keyboard controls, screen readers, focus, contrast, and color-based signals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing pages, forms, components, or interactions, especially when changes affect focus, dynamic content, media, or color.
Why use it?
Automated scans find only some accessibility problems, so manual checks are needed to catch issues that block real users.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the engineering-skills plugin — 47 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when reviewing pages, forms, components, or interactions, especially when changes affect focus, dynamic content, media, or color.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add int2t05/engineering-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install engineering-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,257 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.
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 $0.00087 $0.01257
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00629
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00126

Measured 11d ago against content hash 09e7990f12fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a11y-review 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 11d 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/07-verify/a11y-review/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Accessibility Review

Accessibility is a verify-phase audit, the same shape as security-review: define the conformance target, run the automated layer, walk the manual checks, triage each finding to fix or accept-with-rationale. Automated tools (axe-core) catch ~30–40% of issues; the rest require a keyboard and screen-reader walkthrough. A page that passes axe but fails keyboard nav is not accessible.

When to use

  • Reviewing a UI change (new page, component, form, interaction) before merge.
  • A feature touches focus order, dynamic content, media, or color-only signaling.
  • Hitting a conformance requirement (WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA is the legal/commercial default; AA is the target here unless stated).
  • An automated a11y scan (axe, Lighthouse) surfaced findings to triage.

Not for: general code-quality review (use code-review); machine-detectable lint/style (use linting); runtime behavior bugs (use debugging). a11y-review is the human-judgment + tool-assisted audit layer.

Steps

1. Confirm the conformance target and scope

WCAG 2.2 AA is the default (covers 2.1 AA + new criteria). AAA is opt-in and only for specific surfaces. Scope: which pages/components are in this review? A full-site audit is different from a single-PR review — state the boundary.

2. Run the automated layer

axe-core (or Lighthouse a11y audit) catches the machine-detectable class: missing alt text, empty buttons, insufficient contrast (ratio < 4.5:1 for text), duplicate IDs, missing form labels, invalid ARIA roles. Run it against the rendered DOM, not the source — client-rendered content needs a real browser. Capture every finding with its rule ID.

3. Walk the manual WCAG checks

Automated tools miss the structural and interaction issues. Check per page/component — see references/wcag-checklist.md for the criterion-by-criterion list. The high-value manual checks:

  • Keyboard — every interactive element reachable in logical order via Tab; no keyboard traps; visible focus indicator on every focusable element.
  • Focus management — route changes and modal opens move focus; modals trap focus correctly and return it on close.
  • Heading order<h1><h2><h3> without skipping levels; one <h1> per view.
  • Color independence — information isn't conveyed by color alone (error states have text/icon, not just red); links are distinguishable beyond color.
  • Dynamic contentaria-live regions announce updates; loading and error states are perceivable by AT.
  • Media — images have alt (decorative = alt=""); video has captions; audio has transcript.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 74 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 09e7990f12fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

a11y-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository int2t05/engineering-skills (3 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,257 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 2026-08-31.

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