| name | accessibility-auditor |
| description | Audits a running web page for WCAG accessibility issues, captures a screenshot and annotates it with a numbered box over every problem, then renders a self-contained light-theme website with the score, the annotated screenshot, and a fix for each finding. Use when the user runs /accessibility-auditor or asks to audit, check, or report a site's accessibility, WCAG compliance, alt text, color contrast, labels, or screen-reader support. |
| allowed-tools | ["Bash","Read","AskUserQuestion"] |
Accessibility Auditor
When invoked, you load a real web page in a headless Chromium, run a set of WCAG 2.1 AA checks against the live DOM and computed styles, take a full-page screenshot, and produce a light-theme report that overlays a numbered box on the screenshot for every issue and lists the fix for each. Every finding is read from the running page — nothing is estimated.
Global Context
- User request / scope: $ARGUMENTS — empty, a URL, or a path to a web project
- Engine:
scripts/audit.mjs (Node; its only dependency is puppeteer, installed beside the skill with its own Chromium)
- Template:
assets/template.html
- Output:
a11y-report/index.html, a11y-report/data.json, and a11y-report/screenshot.png in the current directory
What it checks
Images without alt (1.1.1), form controls with no label (4.1.2), buttons and links with no accessible name (4.1.2), text below the AA contrast minimum (1.4.3), heading levels that skip (1.3.1), missing <main> landmark (1.3.1), missing page lang (3.1.1), empty document title (2.4.2), missing <h1> (2.4.6), positive tabindex (2.4.3), role="button" that is not keyboard focusable (2.1.1), vague link text (2.4.4), and duplicate ids (4.1.1).
Rules
- Every issue is detected from the live DOM and real computed styles, never guessed. Page-level issues that have no on-screen box are listed without a marker.
- The engine only writes inside
a11y-report/. It does not modify the audited project.
- Do not add comments to any command you run.
Step 1 — Decide the target URL
Read $ARGUMENTS:
- A URL (starts with
http) → audit it directly, skip to Step 3.
- A path to a project, or empty → treat it as a web project to start locally (Step 2).
Step 2 — Start the project if you only have a path
If you do not already have a running URL, start the project's dev server in the background and wait for it to answer:
cd <project> && (npm run dev >/tmp/a11y-dev.log 2>&1 &) ; for i in $(seq 1 60); do curl -sf http://localhost:5188 >/dev/null && break; sleep 1; done
Read the project's vite.config/package.json for the real port if it is not 5188. If dependencies are missing, run npm --prefix <project> install first.
Step 3 — Run the audit engine
Invoke the engine by its installed absolute path. It writes a11y-report/ into the current working directory:
node "$HOME/.claude/skills/accessibility-auditor/scripts/audit.mjs" <url> a11y-report
The engine loads the page, runs the checks, scores the page 0-100 (A–F), captures the screenshot, computes each issue's box as a percentage of the image, and writes the report. It prints a summary to stdout. If the page cannot be loaded it says so — relay that instead of producing an empty report.
Step 4 — Report back
Relay the stdout summary in your own words: the score and grade, how many issues by severity, and the worst offenders by WCAG criterion. Name the highest-impact fixes (missing alt text, unlabeled inputs, low contrast). Point the user at the site:
a11y-report/index.html
Offer to open it. The page is self-contained — a score gauge and grade, severity cards, the annotated screenshot with a clickable numbered box per issue, a by-principle breakdown (Perceivable / Operable / Understandable / Robust), and a filterable card per finding with its WCAG criterion, the element selector and snippet, and the fix. No server or network needed.
What the numbers mean
- Score — starts at 100; each issue deducts by impact (critical 15, serious 10, moderate 5, minor 2), floored at 0. Grade A ≥90, B ≥75, C ≥60, D ≥40, else F.
- Impact — critical (blocks a screen-reader user, e.g. no alt / no label), serious (contrast, keyboard reachability, page language), moderate (structure: headings, landmarks, focus order), minor (link wording, duplicate ids).
- Box — stored as a percentage of the captured image so the overlay lines up at any display size. Page-level issues (lang, title, missing main) have no box and are listed without a marker.
