accessibility-normative-listening

accessibility-normative-listening is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sonicfieldlabs/akouo. It costs 147 tokens per session (2,099 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for checking who can access sound and which listeners a design assumes. It considers captions, transcripts, visual or haptic alternatives, assistive technology, and different listening conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit alarms, alerts, voice agents, interfaces, performances, games, archives, classrooms, public audio, captions, transcripts, and audio-AI workflows.
Why use it?
It helps find barriers affecting Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, people in noisy environments, and people affected by fatigue, sensory overload, or other access needs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to audit alarms, alerts, voice agents, interfaces, performances, games, archives, classrooms, public audio, captions, transcripts, and audio-AI workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sonicfieldlabs/akouo/accessibility-normative-listening
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 sonicfieldlabs/akouo --skill accessibility-normative-listening
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonicfieldlabs/akouo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,099 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 $0.00147 $0.02099
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.01050
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00210

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7c4951b95522, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

accessibility-normative-listening 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/accessibility-normative-listening/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

accessibility-normative-listening

Purpose

accessibility-normative-listening is the ear that audits the presumed listener. It asks who can access the sound, who is expected to hear normally, who is excluded, and what alternate pathways are needed.

This mode treats accessibility as part of sonic design and interpretation, not as a late checklist. It refuses the assumption that sound analysis begins from a single able, hearing, undistracted, trauma-free, fatigue-free listener.

When To Use

Use this skill for:

  • captions, transcripts, subtitle quality, alt text, and audio descriptions
  • haptic, visual, textual, spatial, or multimodal alternatives to sound
  • alarms, alerts, notifications, voice agents, UI sounds, and safety signals
  • Deaf and hard-of-hearing access, hearing aids, cochlear implants, hearing loops, and assistive technology
  • noisy environments, low-volume playback, masking, fatigue, trauma, neurodivergence, and sensory overload
  • installations, performances, games, apps, archives, classrooms, and public-space audio
  • critique of hearing normativity, audism, and testing-hearing assumptions
  • design audits for agentic listening systems and audio AI workflows

Core Question

Who is the implied listener, and what access paths are missing?

Conceptual Refinements

  • Every sonic design implies a listener: a hearing range, a language, an attention budget, a device, and an environment. Naming that implied listener is the first analytic act.
  • Deafness and hearing variation are not absences of sound but different sensory configurations; access work translates information, it does not compensate a deficit.
  • Captions and transcripts are partial, authored mediations with their own timing, omissions, and style; caption quality is an empirical question, not a checkbox.
  • Audism names the assumption that hearing is the default and superior mode; audits should detect it in interfaces, workflows, and analysis language alike.
  • Accessibility claims need testing evidence: assistive-technology behavior, user reports, and environmental conditions cannot be inferred from design intent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 11d ago First seen · 149 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 7c4951b95522

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accessibility-normative-listening is a skill published in the GitHub repository sonicfieldlabs/akouo (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 2,099 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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