ability-spectrum-mapping

ability-spectrum-mapping is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (793 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for mapping how a product works across different levels of vision, hearing, dexterity, and cognitive ability. It treats accessibility as a range of needs rather than a simple usable-or-not judgment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning accessibility coverage, reviewing important user tasks, or explaining accessibility limitations to a team or stakeholders.
Why use it?
It shows where a feature begins to fail and which users may be excluded, making accessibility gaps easier to identify and discuss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the inclusive-personas plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when planning accessibility coverage, reviewing important user tasks, or explaining accessibility limitations to a team or stakeholders.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/ability-spectrum-mapping
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 Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills --skill ability-spectrum-mapping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install inclusive-personas, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ability-spectrum-mapping

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/ability-spectrum-mapping/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/ability-spectrum-mapping)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/ability-spectrum-mapping"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/ability-spectrum-mapping/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ability-spectrum-mapping

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/ability-spectrum-mapping"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/ability-spectrum-mapping.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 793 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 $0.00081 $0.00793
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00396
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00079

Measured 11d ago against content hash 86bd8dbc2570, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ability-spectrum-mapping 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.

inclusive-personas/skills/ability-spectrum-mapping/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ability Spectrum Mapping

Map how a feature performs across the full range of human ability — from full capability to no capability in each dimension — to identify where the design starts to break down and who gets excluded.

Why a Spectrum

Accessibility is not binary. It's not "can see" vs "blind." The reality is a continuous spectrum:

  • Full vision → needs glasses → low vision → legally blind → no vision
  • Full hearing → mild loss → moderate loss → severe loss → deaf
  • Full dexterity → mild tremor → limited range → single hand → no hands
  • Full cognition → mild difficulty → moderate difficulty → significant support needs

Products don't go from "works" to "doesn't work" in a single step. They degrade gradually. The spectrum map shows you exactly where your design starts failing and for whom.

How to Build an Ability Spectrum Map

Step 1: List Core Tasks

Identify the 5–10 most important tasks a user performs with the product.

Step 2: Define the Spectrums

For each relevant ability dimension, define 4–5 points:

Vision spectrum: Full vision → Corrected vision → Low vision (magnification) → Very low vision (screen reader + some vision) → No vision (screen reader only)

Hearing spectrum: Full hearing → Mild loss (louder volume) → Moderate loss (captions needed) → Severe loss (captions + visual alerts) → Deaf (fully visual communication)

Motor spectrum: Full dexterity → Reduced precision (larger targets) → Limited range (keyboard only) → Minimal movement (switch or voice) → No hand use (eye tracking, sip-and-puff)

Cognitive spectrum: Comfortable with complexity → Prefers simplicity → Needs plain language → Needs step-by-step guidance → Needs significant support

Step 3: Map Each Task

For each task × ability point, rate:

  • Works well — no barriers
  • Works with friction — possible but harder than it should be
  • Works with workaround — user must find their own solution
  • Fails — task cannot be completed

Step 4: Identify the Breakpoints

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 11d ago First seen · 90 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 86bd8dbc2570

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ability-spectrum-mapping is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills (98 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 793 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

webgl-holographic-foil

A self-contained WebGL2 hero: thin-film interference over a crushed-foil surface whose palette shifts with the viewing angle; move the cursor to tilt the film.

nexu-io/open-design · 41 tokens

html-ppt-hermes-cyber-terminal

OpenDesign + BYOK: choosing and wiring your own model, hands-on — cost, quality, and the routing decision. Built as a decision-grade AI literacy deck for engineers, IT, applied-AI teams.

nexu-io/open-design · 53 tokens

html-ppt-taste-brutalist

16:9 HTML deck in tactical-telemetry / CRT-terminal taste. Deactivated-CRT charcoal slides, white-phosphor monospace, hazard-red accent, scanline overlay, ASCII syntax, density over decoration. Distilled from Leonxlnx/taste-skill brutalist-skill (Tactical Telemetry mode).

nexu-io/open-design · 78 tokens

visual-ralph

Visual Ralph orchestration for frontend UI from generated references, static references, or live URL targets, using $ralph with built-in visual verdict and pixel-diff evidence until the implementation matches and leaves a reproducible design system.

Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex · 50 tokens

accessibility

Consolidated accessibility skill entrypoint for WCAG 2.2, ARIA Authoring Practices, cognitive accessibility, Section 508, EN 301 549, design intent verification, and the Accessibility Planner workflow.

microsoft/hve-core · 47 tokens

make-resume

A Chinese-language tool for creating editable HTML resumes that can be changed in a browser and printed to PDF. It uses available resume templates when they are installed and otherwise provides a simpler fallback.

Hisn00w/ASu-skills · 86 tokens