a11y-testing

a11y-testing is a skill for Claude Code from RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (3,402 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for setting up real automated accessibility checks in a web project. It covers tools that check source while coding, component tests, and end-to-end tests against the rendered page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add accessibility checks to a project's linting, component tests, end-to-end tests, or continuous-integration pipeline.
Why use it?
It catches many common accessibility defects in actual rendered pages, such as missing labels, duplicate IDs, invalid ARIA values, and some contrast issues. It also explains the limits of automation, including the need for manual keyboard and screen-reader testing.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is import { test, expect } from '../fixtures/a11y';.

Part of the rad-a11y plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to add accessibility checks to a project's linting, component tests, end-to-end tests, or continuous-integration pipeline.

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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/RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/radorigin-llc/rad-claude-skills/a11y-testing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rad-a11y, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,402 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 $0.00130 $0.03402
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.01701
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00680
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00340

Measured 10d ago against content hash a2686d3411bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a11y-testing 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 10d 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.

archive/plugins/rad-a11y/skills/a11y-testing/SKILL.md · 460 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 460 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Accessibility Testing (real axe in your project)

This skill helps you set up real accessibility testing — eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y at write-time, jest-axe for components, @axe-core/playwright for e2e. Unlike a11y-review (which is static source analysis inside this plugin), this skill installs and configures the actual axe engine in your project so it runs against real rendered DOM.

Automated accessibility testing catches the well-known "low-hanging fruit" — roughly 30–80% of WCAG issues, depending on the page and the tooling. It is necessary but not sufficient. Always pair it with manual keyboard testing and real screen reader testing.

Real axe (this skill's setup) catches:

  • Missing alt text (presence)
  • Missing form labels and broken associations
  • Duplicate IDs in rendered DOM
  • Invalid ARIA attribute values against resolved roles
  • Many contrast failures (when both colors are computed and resolvable at runtime)
  • Empty button names / missing accessible names
  • Some keyboard accessibility failures

Real axe does NOT catch — requires manual testing:

  • Whether alt text is meaningful (not just present)
  • Reading order matches visual order
  • Live region announcement timing
  • Keyboard interaction feel (does Tab order make sense?)
  • Screen reader announcement coherence
  • Custom widget keyboard contracts implemented end-to-end against the WAI-ARIA APG spec

Real axe also misses some things a11y-review catches — like Tailwind outline-none written without focus-visible:ring-* (axe sees the resolved :focus style; the source-pattern bug is invisible to it), and hardcoded ARIA state literals in JSX. Use both.


The Testing Stack

Layer Tool When
Editor linting eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y As you type
Unit / component jest-axe + @testing-library/react Per component
E2E / integration @axe-core/playwright Per page flow
Manual browser audit axe DevTools extension During dev
CI gate Playwright + axe in GitHub Actions On every PR

Read the full file on GitHub · 460 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. 10d ago First seen · 460 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A a2686d3411bc

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a11y-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills (5 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 3,402 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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