inclusive-design-patterns

A collection of interface design patterns for making products usable by people with different abilities and circumstances. It covers text, color, forms, motion, icons, multilingual interfaces, and interactive controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing accessible colors and typography, labeling forms, making animations safer, adding accessible icons and controls, or supporting different languages and user needs.
Why use it?
It helps avoid designs that work only for people with perfect vision, hearing, movement, attention, or internet access. The patterns also account for temporary and situational limitations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/plugin87/full-stack-design-skills/inclusive-design-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add plugin87/full-stack-design-skills --skill inclusive-design-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plugin87/full-stack-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,005 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 $0.00134 $0.04005
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.02003
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00801
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00400

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4ae23be13bde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inclusive-design-patterns 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/inclusive-design-patterns/SKILL.md · 668 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 668 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inclusive Design Patterns

Practical patterns for designing interfaces that work for everyone, including people with disabilities.

Accessibility isn't a nice-to-have feature—it's a core design principle. Inclusive design means designing from the start for people with disabilities, rather than retrofitting later. This benefits everyone: captions help in noisy environments, large text helps when tired, and clear navigation helps when distracted.


Core Principle: Design for Constraints

Who Benefits from Accessible Design?

People with permanent disabilities:

  • Low vision (reduce text size? Problem. Use zoom + readable fonts.)
  • Colorblindness (red/green can't distinguish? Use patterns + labels.)
  • Motor impairments (can't use mouse? Keyboard navigation needed.)
  • Deaf/hard of hearing (video has no captions? Can't understand.)
  • Cognitive differences (complex language? Use clear, simple language.)

People in temporary situations:

  • Broken arm (can't use mouse or type)
  • Temporary vision loss (bright sun, dark room)
  • Noisy environment (can't hear audio)
  • Slow internet (images load slowly)
  • Interrupted attention (loud office)

People in situational constraints:

  • On mobile (small screen, touch, distraction)
  • Older adults (presbyopia, tremor, slower reflexes)
  • Non-native speakers (complex language is harder)
  • Low literacy (jargon and long sentences confusing)

All of the above makes your product better for everyone.


Accessible Color Design

Color Contrast: WCAG Standards

Text must have sufficient contrast to be readable. WCAG defines two levels:

WCAG AA (minimum recommended):

  • Regular text (< 18px): 4.5:1 contrast ratio
  • Large text (≥ 18px bold or ≥ 24px regular): 3:1 contrast ratio

WCAG AAA (enhanced, for sensitive content):

  • Regular text: 7:1 contrast ratio
  • Large text: 4.5:1 contrast ratio

Contrast Examples

✅ Good: Black text on white background
- Contrast: 21:1 (very high)
- Passes WCAG AAA

✅ Good: Dark gray (#333) on white
- Contrast: 12.6:1
- Passes WCAG AAA

⚠️ Borderline: Medium gray (#666) on white
- Contrast: 3.3:1
- Fails WCAG AA for regular text
- Passes only for large text (18px+)

❌ Bad: Light gray (#ccc) on white
- Contrast: 1.4:1
- Fails all standards

❌ Bad: Red text on blue background
- Visually colorful but low contrast
- Fails for colorblind users

Read the full file on GitHub · 668 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 3d ago First seen · 668 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4ae23be13bde

Subscribe to this mod's changes

inclusive-design-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository plugin87/full-stack-design-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 4,005 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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