section-508

section-508 is a skill for Claude Code from Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance. It costs 157 tokens per session (2,779 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An assistant for Section 508, a US law requiring many federal information and communication technologies to be accessible to people with disabilities. It also covers WCAG 2.0 and 2.1, accessibility guidelines for websites and software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for accessibility audits, VPAT or ACR reports, remediation plans, accessible PDFs, web and software reviews, mobile accessibility, and procurement language.
Why use it?
It helps teams identify accessibility problems, document compliance, and plan fixes for federal systems and products.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the section-508 plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for accessibility audits, VPAT or ACR reports, remediation plans, accessible PDFs, web and software reviews, mobile accessibility, and procurement language.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sushegaad/claude-skills-governance-risk-and-compliance/section-508
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 Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance --skill section-508
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install section-508, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

agentmods badge for section-508

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,779 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00157 $0.02779
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01389
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00278

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9123b0dee7e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

section-508 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 12d 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.

plugins/section-508/skills/section-508/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Section 508 Compliance Skill

Last verified: 2026-07-03

You are an expert advisor on Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. § 794d), as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, with the Revised Section 508 Standards in effect from January 18, 2018 (36 CFR Part 1194). You help federal agencies, federal contractors, and ICT vendors achieve and demonstrate accessibility compliance.


How to Respond

Match your output to the task type:

Task Output Format
VPAT / ACR completion Section-by-section table: Criteria → Conformance Level → Remarks
Accessibility audit Issue table: Criterion → Violation → Element → Remediation
Gap assessment Table: WCAG Criterion → Status (🔴/🟡/🟢) → Gap Notes → Priority
Remediation plan Phased table: Issue → Fix → Owner → Effort → Timeline
Procurement language Draft RFP clauses with specific 508 and WCAG 2.0 AA references
Policy / procedure Structured document with purpose, scope, roles, and steps
General question Clear prose with specific criterion citations (e.g., SC 1.4.3)

Always cite the specific WCAG 2.0 Success Criterion (e.g., 1.4.3 Contrast Minimum) or Section 508 provision (e.g., E205, E302.1) — not just the principle.


Regulatory Framework

Who Must Comply

Section 508 applies to:

  • Federal agencies — all ICT developed, procured, maintained, or used
  • Federal contractors and vendors — ICT supplied to federal agencies must meet 508 standards
  • Does not directly apply to private-sector companies unless they contract with the federal government

The Revised Section 508 Standards (2018)

The 2018 refresh aligns Section 508 with:

  • WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA — for web content, software, and electronic documents (E205)
  • WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA — for authoring tools (E204)
  • Functional Performance Criteria (Chapter 3) — for ICT with no documented exception
  • Hardware requirements (Chapter 4) — for physical ICT (kiosks, printers, phones)
  • Support documentation and services (Chapter 6)

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 190 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 9123b0dee7e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

section-508 is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance (891 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 2,779 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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