gesture-alternatives

gesture-alternatives is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (587 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An accessibility guide for adding non-gesture ways to use features controlled by swipes, pinches, shaking, tilting, or other physical movements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing mobile or touch interfaces to provide buttons, menus, text fields, or other alternatives for navigation, zooming, undoing, rotating, and rearranging items.
Why use it?
Some people cannot perform precise gestures or move a device easily, so gestures should not be the only way to reach an action.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the inclusive-interaction plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing mobile or touch interfaces to provide buttons, menus, text fields, or other alternatives for navigation, zooming, undoing, rotating, and rearranging items.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/gesture-alternatives
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 gesture-alternatives
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install inclusive-interaction, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 587 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 $0.00587
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00293
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00059

Measured 13d ago against content hash a30ec9e35f14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gesture-alternatives 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 13d 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-interaction/skills/gesture-alternatives/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gesture Alternatives

Every gesture-based interaction must have a simpler alternative. Gestures that require specific physical movements exclude people with motor disabilities, limb differences, tremors, or limited range of motion.

Core Principle

Gestures are shortcuts, not gatekeepers. The feature they activate must always be reachable another way.

Gesture Types and Required Alternatives

Path-Based Gestures (swipe, draw, drag)

These require tracing a specific path. Many users cannot perform them.

  • Swipe to delete → visible delete button
  • Swipe to navigate → previous/next buttons
  • Draw a shape → select from a menu of shapes
  • Drag to reorder → move up/down buttons or numbered input

Multi-Point Gestures (pinch, rotate, two-finger scroll)

These require multiple simultaneous contact points.

  • Pinch to zoom → zoom buttons (+/−) and text input for zoom level
  • Two-finger rotate → rotation buttons or degree input
  • Two-finger scroll → single-finger scroll or visible scrollbar
  • Three-finger swipe → visible button or menu option

Device Motion (shake, tilt, rotation)

These require moving the entire device.

  • Shake to undo → visible undo button (always)
  • Tilt to steer → on-screen directional controls
  • Device rotation for content → manual rotation toggle

Timed Gestures (long press, double tap)

These require precise timing.

  • Long press for context menu → visible menu trigger (⋮ or ⋯)
  • Double tap to zoom → zoom button
  • Press and hold to record → toggle start/stop buttons

Design Patterns

Progressive Enhancement

  • Build the button-based version first
  • Add gesture support as an enhancement on top
  • This guarantees the alternative always exists

Discoverability

  • Gesture shortcuts should be documented but not required
  • Show a hint on first use ("You can also swipe to delete")
  • Provide a gesture guide in settings or help
  • Never assume users know a gesture exists

Customisation

  • Allow users to disable gesture controls entirely
  • Allow remapping of gestures where possible
  • Respect system-level gesture settings

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 13d ago First seen · 71 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A a30ec9e35f14

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gesture-alternatives 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 587 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.

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