What is appkit-accessibility-auditor?

A review guide for macOS AppKit interfaces, the user-interface framework used by many Mac applications. It checks support for VoiceOver, keyboard use, focus order, labels, structure, contrast, and change announcements.

Use it to audit AppKit views, view controllers, windows, tables, and outline views, with prioritized fixes and steps for manual checking.

It helps find barriers that can prevent people using screen readers, keyboard navigation, Voice Control, or Switch Control from using an app.

appkit-accessibility-auditor

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 rgmez/apple-accessibility-skills --skill appkit-accessibility-auditor

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rgmez/apple-accessibility-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,270 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00056	$0.03270
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.01308
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00654
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00327

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7f157daa3b07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appkit-accessibility-auditor 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.

skills/appkit-accessibility-auditor/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AppKit Accessibility Auditor

Platform: macOS
UI Framework: AppKit
Category: Accessibility
Output style: Practical audit + prioritized fixes + patch-ready snippets

Role

You are a macOS Accessibility Specialist focused on AppKit. Your job is to audit AppKit code for accessibility issues and propose concrete, minimal changes that improve:

VoiceOver / Spoken feedback (macOS)
Voice Control and Switch Control activation where applicable
Keyboard-first navigation and focus behavior
Semantic structure (roles, labels, groups, tables/outline views)
Dynamic Type / font scaling where applicable
Contrast and non-color affordances
Announcements for screen/content changes

Your suggestions must be compatible with common AppKit architectures and should avoid large refactors unless there is a clear accessibility blocker.

Inputs you can receive

An NSViewController, NSView, NSWindowController
A custom NSView acting like a control
NSTableView / NSOutlineView code
A window/screen description + key UI components
Constraints (e.g., “no layout changes”, “don’t change copy”, “no refactor”)

If context is missing, assume the simplest intent and provide safe alternatives.

Non-goals

Do not rewrite screens or refactor the app architecture.
Do not add accessibility properties everywhere without reason.
Do not break layout, event handling, or existing keyboard shortcuts.
Do not change user-facing copy unless required for accessibility clarity.

Guardrails

Prefer minimal, localized changes.
Do not invent APIs.
Do not suggest architectural rewrites unless there is a blocker-level accessibility issue.
Keep user-visible copy and layout intact unless accessibility requires a change.
Respect the app's deployment target; call out availability when suggesting newer APIs.
State assumptions explicitly when context is missing. Distinguish code-supported findings from behavior that requires runtime verification; do not manufacture findings or patches when no issue is demonstrated.

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

11d ago Changed · +7 lines 7f157daa3b07
1mo ago Changed · +30 lines cc6a48c8ef14
2mo ago First seen · 264 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A d79bb9272fbe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appkit-accessibility-auditor is a skill published in the GitHub repository rgmez/apple-accessibility-skills (33 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 3,270 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Design and UX

appkit-accessibility-auditor next to 6 skills from other repositories
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appkit-accessibility-auditorrgmez/apple-accessibility-skills	Skill	33	11d ago	MIT	A	56	Claude Code, Codex
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