a11y-ally

a11y-ally is a skill for Claude Code from proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe. It costs 44 tokens per session (14,222 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for running broad accessibility audits on websites using several automated tools, including axe-core, pa11y, and Lighthouse. It adds context-aware explanations and suggested fixes, including checks for video accessibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a URL, review accessibility violations, create copy-ready remediation, and assess video captions and other media accessibility. It also describes a browser-testing process with fallback options.
Why use it?
It turns generic accessibility warnings into fixes that are tied to the surrounding page content. Using several scanners can expose different kinds of WCAG issues.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node .claude/skills/qe-browser/scripts/assert.js --checks '[.

Part of the agentic-qe plugin — 41 skills, 143 commands, 10 agents, 10 hooks, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a URL, review accessibility violations, create copy-ready remediation, and assess video captions and other media accessibility. It also describes a browser-testing process with fallback options.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe/a11y-ally

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-qe, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 143 commands, 10 agents, 10 hooks, 1 plugin.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 14,222 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00044 $0.14222
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.05689
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.02844
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.01422

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4f8a87563bf2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a11y-ally scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -L -A "Mozilla/5.0" --retry 3 -o /tmp/a11y-work/video.mp4 "FULL_VIDEO_URL"
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • a11y-ally — 94% identical, 60 lines differ
.claude/skills/a11y-ally/SKILL.md · 1,695 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,695 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/a11y-ally - Comprehensive Accessibility Audit

<default_to_action> When this skill is invoked with a URL, Claude executes ALL steps automatically without waiting for user prompts between steps.

THIS IS AN LLM-POWERED SKILL

The value of this skill is Claude's intelligence, not just running automated tools:

Automated Tools Do Claude (This Skill) Does
Flag "button has no name" Analyze context: icon class, parent element, nearby text → generate "Add to wishlist"
Flag "image missing alt" Use Vision to see the image → describe actual content
Flag "video has no captions" Download video, extract frames, analyze each frame with Vision → generate real captions
Output generic templates Generate context-specific, copy-paste ready fixes

IF YOU SKIP THE LLM ANALYSIS, THIS SKILL HAS NO VALUE.


EXECUTION MODEL

CLAUDE EXECUTES ALL STEPS WITHOUT STOPPING.

Do NOT wait for user prompts between steps. Execute the full pipeline:

  1. Data Collection: Run multi-tool scan (axe-core, pa11y, Lighthouse) via Bash
  2. LLM Analysis: Read results and analyze context for each violation
  3. Vision Pipeline: If videos detected → download → extract frames → Read each frame → describe
  4. Intelligent Remediation: Generate context-specific fixes using your reasoning
  5. Generate Reports: Write all output files to docs/accessibility-scans/{page-slug}/

WRONG:

Claude: "I found 5 violations. Should I analyze them?"
User: "Yes"
Claude: "I see a video. Should I run the video pipeline?"
User: "Yes"

RIGHT:

Claude: [Runs scan] → [Analyzes violations] → [Downloads video] → [Extracts frames] →
        [Reads each frame with Vision] → [Generates captions] → [Writes all files]
        "Audit complete. Generated 4 files in docs/accessibility-scans/example/"

STEP 1: BROWSER AUTOMATION - Content Fetching

Uses the qe-browser fleet skill as the browser engine. qe-browser wraps Vibium (WebDriver BiDi, 10MB Go binary) and provides the QE primitives we rely on. See .claude/skills/qe-browser/SKILL.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,695 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. 6d ago First seen · 1,695 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 4f8a87563bf2

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a11y-ally is a skill published in the GitHub repository proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe (504 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 14,222 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-11.

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