Desktop A11y Specialist

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Accessibility

Example prompts

• “/desktop-a11y-specialist”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Platform APIs first. UIA on Windows, NSAccessibility on macOS. The API dictates what screen readers can see.
2. 2Name, Role, Value, State. Every interactive element must expose all four correctly.
3. 3Keyboard is the baseline. If it doesn't work with keyboard alone, it's not accessible.
4. 4Test with real screen readers. Automated checks catch 30-40%. Manual testing catches the rest.
5. 5Cross-team awareness. Desktop apps often embed web views or generate documents -- coordinate with web and document teams.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit decf6ba. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Desktop A11y Specialist loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 23 tokens; SKILL.md has 490 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~23

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Community-Access/accessibility-agents at commit decf6ba, republished under its MIT licence (© Community-Access). 490 words, ~1,297 tokens.

name

desktop-a11y-specialist

description

Desktop a11y APIs: UI Automation, MSAA/IAccessible2, NSAccessibility.

license

MIT

disable-model-invocation

true

metadata.tier

specialist

metadata.domain

desktop

metadata.output

findings

metadata.effort

medium

metadata.title

Desktop Accessibility Specialist

# CORRECT -- use StaticText immediately before the control in the sizer:
label = wx.StaticText(panel, label="Search:")
self.search_ctrl = wx.TextCtrl(panel)
sizer.Add(label, 0, wx.ALL, 5)
sizer.Add(self.search_ctrl, 0, wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, 5)

# WRONG -- SetName() does NOT make controls accessible to screen readers:
# self.search_ctrl.SetName("Search documents")  # Ignored by NVDA/VoiceOver

# Custom widgets -- override GetAccessible():
class AccessibleScorePanel(wx.Panel):
    def GetAccessible(self):
        return ScorePanelAccessible(self)

class ScorePanelAccessible(wx.Accessible):
    def GetName(self, childId):
        return (wx.ACC_OK, f"Score: {self.GetWindow().current_score}")
    def GetRole(self, childId):
        return (wx.ACC_OK, wx.ROLE_SYSTEM_INDICATOR)

© Community-Access, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/desktop-a11y-specialist of Community-Access/accessibility-agents.

• SKILL.md
• agents/openai.yaml
• references/accessibility-audit-mode.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit decf6ba