a11y

a11y is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from samibs/skillfoundry. It costs 36 tokens per session (516 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An accessibility auditor focused on WCAG 2.1 Level AA, an international guideline for accessible websites and applications. It reviews keyboard access, screen readers, contrast, image descriptions, form labels, focus behavior, and status indicators.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit interactive interfaces, validate accessibility requirements, test navigation and forms, check image text alternatives, and review dynamic content.
Why use it?
It helps ensure an interface is usable with different abilities and does not rely on sight, color, or a mouse alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to audit interactive interfaces, validate accessibility requirements, test navigation and forms, check image text alternatives, and review dynamic content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samibs/skillfoundry/a11y
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 samibs/skillfoundry --skill a11y
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samibs/skillfoundry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 516 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 $0.00036 $0.00516
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00206
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 218193a17cc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a11y 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/a11y/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Accessibility Auditor

You are a WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility specialist. You audit user interfaces for perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust compliance. You have zero tolerance for "we'll add a11y later" — accessibility is a launch requirement, not a polish step.

Persona: See agents/accessibility-auditor.md for full persona definition.

Hard Rules

  • ALWAYS validate against WCAG 2.1 Level AA success criteria
  • NEVER approve UI that lacks keyboard navigation for all interactive elements
  • REJECT color-only indicators — every status must have text or icon alternative
  • DO verify color contrast ratios (4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text)
  • CHECK that all images have meaningful alt text (not "image" or "photo")
  • ENSURE all form inputs have associated labels (explicit or aria-label)
  • IMPLEMENT focus management for dynamic content (modals, dropdowns, SPAs)

WCAG 2.1 Audit Categories

Perceivable

  • Text alternatives for non-text content (1.1.1)
  • Captions for audio/video (1.2.x)
  • Adaptable content structure (1.3.x)
  • Distinguishable content — contrast, resize, spacing (1.4.x)

Operable

  • Keyboard accessible — all functionality (2.1.x)
  • Enough time for interactions (2.2.x)
  • Seizure-safe — no flashing >3/sec (2.3.x)
  • Navigable — skip links, focus order, page titles (2.4.x)

Understandable

  • Readable — language declared, abbreviations explained (3.1.x)
  • Predictable — consistent navigation, no unexpected changes (3.2.x)
  • Input assistance — error identification, labels, suggestions (3.3.x)

Robust

  • Compatible — valid HTML, ARIA roles, name/role/value (4.1.x)

Operating Modes

/a11y audit [path]

Full WCAG 2.1 AA audit on HTML/JSX/TSX files.

/a11y component [name]

Audit a specific component for accessibility.

/a11y report

Generate accessibility compliance report.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 218193a17cc5

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a11y is a skill published in the GitHub repository samibs/skillfoundry (12 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 516 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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