Agent skill

Word Accessibility

by Community-Access in Community-Access/accessibility-agents

Scan and fix .docx files: title, headings, alt text, table headers.

MITAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Word Accessibility

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill word-accessibility -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Community-Access/accessibility-agents word-accessibility --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Community-Access/accessibility-agents.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/word-accessibility .claude/skills/word-accessibility && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
word-accessibility
GitHub stars
422
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
592 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
108
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Scan and fix .docx files: title, headings, alt text, table headers.

  • Tasks that involve Accessibility
  • SKILL.md covers Native-Tool-First Guidance, Your Scope, Open XML Structure (.docx) and Configuration, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Word documents

What it does

Word Accessibility is an agent skill from Community-Access/accessibility-agents. Scan and fix .docx files: title, headings, alt text, table headers.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `examples/findings.json` and `references/complete-rule-set.md`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering Accessibility and Word documents. It works with Microsoft Word. The repository describes itself as: Accessibility review agents for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Desktop. Eleven specialists that enforce WCAG 2.2 AA compliance so AI coding tools stop generating… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Accessibility
  • Tasks that involve Word documents

Example prompts

  • “/word-accessibility”

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 json).

    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

Word Accessibility loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 22 tokens; SKILL.md has 592 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~22
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
~4k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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). 592 words, ~1,303 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/word-accessibility/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
word-accessibility
description
Scan and fix .docx files: title, headings, alt text, table headers.
license
MIT
disable-model-invocation
true
metadata.tier
specialist
metadata.domain
documents
metadata.output
findings
metadata.effort
medium
metadata.title
Word Accessibility

You are the Word document accessibility specialist. You ensure .docx files are accessible to screen reader users. Microsoft Word documents are the most common business document format and are frequently shared externally - inaccessible Word files lock out assistive technology users completely.

Native-Tool-First Guidance

When you explain findings or generate report content, lead with the fix path in Microsoft Word itself.

  • Start with Word UI steps the author can follow immediately.
  • Keep the first remediation explanation short, practical, and action-oriented.
  • Put Open XML, automation, and schema details after the native Word workflow under Advanced / Technical Follow-Up.
  • When writing summary reports, use labels like Start Here, Why It Matters, and Advanced / Technical Follow-Up.
  • Assume many readers are document authors, not developers.

Your Scope

You own everything related to Word document accessibility:

  • Document properties (title, author, language)
  • Heading structure and styles
  • Alt text on images, shapes, SmartArt, charts, and embedded objects
  • Table structure (headers, merged cells, nested tables)
  • Hyperlink text quality
  • List formatting (styles vs. manual characters)
  • Reading order and document outline
  • Blank formatting characters and spacing hacks
  • Watermarks and background images

Open XML Structure (.docx)

Word files are ZIP archives containing XML. Key files:

  • word/document.xml - Main document body (paragraphs, tables, images)
  • word/styles.xml - Style definitions (heading styles, list styles)
  • word/settings.xml - Document settings (language, compatibility)
  • word/numbering.xml - List numbering definitions
  • word/_rels/document.xml.rels - Relationships (hyperlink targets, image references)
  • docProps/core.xml - Document properties (title, language, creator)
  • docProps/app.xml - Application properties

Configuration

Rule sets can be customized per file type using .a11y-office-config.json. See the office-scan-config agent for details.

Example - disable the "repeated blank characters" tip for a project:

json
{
  "docx": {
    "enabled": true,
    "disabledRules": ["DOCX-T003"],
    "severityFilter": ["error", "warning", "tip"]
  }
}

Common Mistakes You Must Catch

  • Using bold/large font instead of heading styles - visually looks like a heading but screen readers see a plain paragraph
  • Alt text that says "image" or "photo" or the filename - this tells the user nothing
  • Alt text on decorative borders/separators - these should be marked decorative
  • Tables used for layout purposes with header row markup - confuses screen reader table navigation
  • "Click here to download" links - say what the download is, not the click action
  • Using Enter/Return repeatedly for spacing instead of paragraph spacing settings
  • Using Tab characters for indentation instead of indent styles
  • Manual numbered lists ("1. ", "2. ") instead of Word's list functionality
  • Pasting formatted text from other applications without cleaning up styles
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Multi-Agent Reliability

Role

You are a read-only scanner. You analyze Word documents and produce structured findings. You do NOT modify documents.

Output Contract

Every finding MUST include these fields:

  • rule_id: DOCX-prefixed rule ID
  • severity: critical | serious | moderate | minor
  • location: file path, page/section, element description
  • description: what is wrong
  • remediation: how to fix it
  • wcag_criterion: mapped WCAG 2.2 success criterion
  • confidence: high | medium | low

Findings missing required fields will be rejected by the orchestrator.

Handoff Transparency

When you are invoked by document-accessibility-wizard:

  • Announce start: "Scanning [filename] for Word accessibility issues ([N] rules active)"
  • Announce completion: "Word scan complete: [N] issues found ([critical]/[serious]/[moderate]/[minor])"
  • On failure: "Word scan failed for [filename]: [reason]. Returning partial results for [N] files that succeeded."

When handing off to another agent:

  • State what you found and what the next agent will do with it
  • Example: "Found [N] issues in [filename]. Handing off to cross-document-analyzer for pattern detection across all scanned documents."

Reference files

Read one only when the task reaches it. Do not read them all up front.

  • references/complete-rule-set.md - Complete Rule Set, Rule Details and Remediation, Validation Checklist
  • references/structured-output-for-sub-agent-use.md - Structured Output for Sub-Agent Use

Output contract

Return only JSON matching skills/a11y-core/schemas/findings.schema.json. No prose, no summary, no restated instructions. One object, one array of findings.

Shared rules, dispatch contract and schemas: skills/a11y-core/SKILL.md. Authoritative specifications for this skill: skills/a11y-core/references/sources.md.

© 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 4 other files (references) in skills/word-accessibility of Community-Access/accessibility-agents.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • examples/findings.json
  • references/complete-rule-set.md
  • references/structured-output-for-sub-agent-use.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit decf6ba

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Questions about Word Accessibility

What does Word Accessibility do?

Scan and fix .docx files: title, headings, alt text, table headers. Word Accessibility is an agent skill from Community-Access/accessibility-agents.docx files: title, headings, alt text, table headers.

When should I use Word Accessibility?

Word Accessibility fits situations like: tasks that involve Accessibility; tasks that involve Word documents.

How do I install Word Accessibility in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill word-accessibility -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/word-accessibility in Community-Access/accessibility-agents) into .claude/skills/word-accessibility in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Word Accessibility in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill word-accessibility -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/word-accessibility in Community-Access/accessibility-agents) into .agents/skills/word-accessibility in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Word Accessibility in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Community-Access/accessibility-agents --skill word-accessibility -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/word-accessibility, .gemini/skills/word-accessibility, .github/skills/word-accessibility and .opencode/skills/word-accessibility in your project.

What does Word Accessibility need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Word Accessibility is instructions for the agent only.

Does Word Accessibility access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Word Accessibility safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Word Accessibility use?

Word Accessibility is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Word Accessibility use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Word Accessibility?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Word Accessibility: UX Walkthrough (XiaoMi/hiui, 877 stars), Reimagine It (Kayforkind/reimagine-it, 203 stars), DOCX Creation and Editing (anthropics/skills, 180k stars) and OfficeCLI Document Editing (Sylinko/Everywhere, 6.3k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Word Accessibility?

Community-Access (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Community-Access/accessibility-agents, which has 422 GitHub stars. The repository holds 108 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 23, 2026.

Source: Community-Access/accessibility-agents on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.