screen-reader-testing

screen-reader-testing is a skill for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,587 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing guide for checking web applications with screen readers such as VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS, which read interfaces aloud or through refreshable displays.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for validating screen-reader compatibility, debugging accessibility issues, testing forms and announcements, and checking accessible navigation.
Why use it?
It helps reveal navigation, form, ARIA, and dynamic-content problems that users of screen readers may encounter.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the accessibility-compliance plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It is for validating screen-reader compatibility, debugging accessibility issues, testing forms and announcements, and checking accessible navigation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshobson/agents/screen-reader-testing
About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 40,926 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

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 wshobson/agents --skill screen-reader-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install accessibility-compliance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,587 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
  • Socket pass 15 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Oct 2026
  • 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 $0.00039 $0.01587
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00635
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00159

Measured yesterday against content hash d7a4190a8869, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

screen-reader-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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/accessibility-compliance/skills/screen-reader-testing/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Screen Reader Testing

Practical guide to testing web applications with screen readers for comprehensive accessibility validation.

When to Use This Skill

  • Validating screen reader compatibility
  • Testing ARIA implementations
  • Debugging assistive technology issues
  • Verifying form accessibility
  • Testing dynamic content announcements
  • Ensuring navigation accessibility

Core Concepts

1. Major Screen Readers

Screen Reader Platform Browser Usage
VoiceOver macOS/iOS Safari ~15%
NVDA Windows Firefox/Chrome ~31%
JAWS Windows Chrome/IE ~40%
TalkBack Android Chrome ~10%
Narrator Windows Edge ~4%

2. Testing Priority

Minimum Coverage:
1. NVDA + Firefox (Windows)
2. VoiceOver + Safari (macOS)
3. VoiceOver + Safari (iOS)

Comprehensive Coverage:
+ JAWS + Chrome (Windows)
+ TalkBack + Chrome (Android)
+ Narrator + Edge (Windows)

3. Screen Reader Modes

Mode Purpose When Used
Browse/Virtual Read content Default reading
Focus/Forms Interact with controls Filling forms
Application Custom widgets ARIA applications

Before testing on macOS, read VoiceOver setup, commands, and checklists.

For the required iOS Safari coverage, read VoiceOver touch setup and gestures.

Before testing with NVDA, read NVDA setup, modes, commands, and test scripts.

Before testing with JAWS or TalkBack, read platform setup and commands.

Common Test Scenarios

1. Modal Dialog

<!-- Accessible modal structure -->
<div
  role="dialog"
  aria-modal="true"
  aria-labelledby="dialog-title"
  aria-describedby="dialog-desc"
>
  <h2 id="dialog-title">Confirm Delete</h2>
  <p id="dialog-desc">This action cannot be undone.</p>
  <button>Cancel</button>
  <button>Delete</button>
</div>

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. yesterday Changed · -293 lines d7a4190a8869
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 539 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 591c7ff80f40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

screen-reader-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (40,926 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,587 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.