Agent skill

Disability Inclusive Personas

by Owl-Listener in Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills

Create user personas that include disability as a natural dimension of human diversity — not as a separate 'accessibility persona'.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Disability Inclusive Personas

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills --skill disability-inclusive-personas -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills disability-inclusive-personas --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/Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/inclusive-personas/skills/disability-inclusive-personas .claude/skills/disability-inclusive-personas && 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
disability-inclusive-personas
GitHub stars
105
Token cost
~987 tokens
SKILL.md length
500 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
55
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Create user personas that include disability as a natural dimension of human diversity — not as a separate 'accessibility persona'.

  • Works in 2 steps: Create personas with no mention of… → Create separate "accessibility personas"…
  • Creating personas
  • SKILL.md covers The Problem with…, The Better Approach, Persona Dimensions to Include and How to Include Disability…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Disability Inclusive Personas is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. Create user personas that include disability as a natural dimension of human diversity — not as a separate 'accessibility persona'. Use when creating personas, user profiles, proto-personas, or any representation of target users. Triggers on: persona, user persona, proto-persona, user profile, target user, who is the user, disability persona, accessibility persona, inclusive persona.

Its SKILL.md is about 990 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Accessibility. The repository describes itself as: Inclusive design skills for AI coding agents — from cognitive accessibility to adaptive interfaces, inclusive research, and accessibility decision-making. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Creating personas
  • Any representation of target users
  • Who is the user
  • Disability persona

Example prompts

  • “accessibility persona”
  • “/disability-inclusive-personas”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Create personas with no mention of disability at all, or
  2. Create separate "accessibility personas" that exist only to

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e0740f. 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.

    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

Disability Inclusive Personas loads about 987 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 104 tokens; SKILL.md has 500 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~104
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~987

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 Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills at commit 6e0740f, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 500 words, ~987 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/disability-inclusive-personas/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
disability-inclusive-personas
description
Create user personas that include disability as a natural dimension of human diversity — not as a separate 'accessibility persona'. Use when creating personas, user profiles, proto-personas, or any representation of target users. Triggers on: persona, user persona, proto-persona, user profile, target user, who is the user, disability persona, accessibility persona, inclusive persona.

Disability-Inclusive Personas

Build personas where disability is woven into the full picture of a person — their goals, frustrations, context, and behaviour — not isolated as a special category.

The Problem with "Accessibility Personas"

Most teams either:

  1. Create personas with no mention of disability at all, or
  2. Create separate "accessibility personas" that exist only to represent a disability

Both fail. The first excludes. The second reduces a person to their disability and ensures they're only considered when someone remembers to look at the "accessibility slide."

The Better Approach

Every persona set should include disability as one dimension among many — the same way you include age, technical confidence, or context of use. Some personas will have disabilities. All personas exist in contexts that create situational impairment.

Persona Dimensions to Include

For every persona, consider:

Permanent Disability
  • Visual: blind, low vision, colour vision deficiency
  • Hearing: deaf, hard of hearing
  • Motor: limited dexterity, tremor, paralysis, limb difference
  • Cognitive: dyslexia, ADHD, autism, memory difficulties
  • Speech: stutter, non-verbal, atypical speech
Temporary Impairment
  • Broken arm, eye surgery recovery, concussion, medication side effects, ear infection, dental procedure
Situational Impairment
  • Bright sunlight on screen, noisy environment, carrying a child, wearing gloves, driving, multitasking, unfamiliar language, emotional distress, fatigue
Intersectionality
  • A persona can have multiple conditions
  • Disability intersects with age, language, income, technical skill
  • A 65-year-old with low vision AND limited broadband AND a second language has compounding access barriers

How to Include Disability Naturally

In the Bio

Don't: "Sarah is blind." Do: "Sarah is a project manager who has been blind since birth. She uses JAWS screen reader on her work laptop and VoiceOver on her iPhone. She's fast with keyboard shortcuts and gets frustrated by interfaces that waste her time."

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In Goals and Frustrations

Don't: list disability under "Challenges" Do: show how the disability shapes what good and bad experiences look like. "Sarah's goal is to review her team's status updates in under 10 minutes. Her biggest frustration is dashboards that require a mouse to access key data."

In Context of Use

Include the assistive technology and environment:

  • What device and assistive technology do they use?
  • What's their environment? (noisy, quiet, mobile, desktop)
  • What's their energy level? (morning, end of long day)
  • Who else is present? (alone, with family, in public)
In the Scenario

The persona's scenario should show them using the product with their actual setup — not a theoretical clean-room test.

Minimum Diversity Rule

For any persona set of 4 or more:

  • At least one persona should have a permanent disability
  • At least one persona should have a situational impairment
  • At least two personas should vary in technical confidence
  • The set should vary across age, language, and context

This is a minimum, not a target.

Assessment Questions

  1. Does the persona set include at least one person with a disability?
  2. Is disability integrated into the full persona, not isolated?
  3. Are assistive technology and environment specified?
  4. Does the persona's scenario reflect real-world usage with their setup?
  5. Are situational impairments represented across the set?

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Files

Just SKILL.md in inclusive-personas/skills/disability-inclusive-personas of Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e0740f

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Questions about Disability Inclusive Personas

What does Disability Inclusive Personas do?

Create user personas that include disability as a natural dimension of human diversity — not as a separate 'accessibility persona'. Disability Inclusive Personas is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. Create user personas that include disability as a natural dimension of human diversity — not as a separate 'accessibility persona'.

When should I use Disability Inclusive Personas?

Disability Inclusive Personas fits situations like: creating personas; any representation of target users; who is the user; disability persona.

How do I install Disability Inclusive Personas in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills --skill disability-inclusive-personas -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (inclusive-personas/skills/disability-inclusive-personas in Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills) into .claude/skills/disability-inclusive-personas in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Disability Inclusive Personas in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills --skill disability-inclusive-personas -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (inclusive-personas/skills/disability-inclusive-personas in Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills) into .agents/skills/disability-inclusive-personas in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Disability Inclusive Personas 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 Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills --skill disability-inclusive-personas -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/disability-inclusive-personas, .gemini/skills/disability-inclusive-personas, .github/skills/disability-inclusive-personas and .opencode/skills/disability-inclusive-personas in your project.

What does Disability Inclusive Personas need to run?

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

Does Disability Inclusive Personas 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 Disability Inclusive Personas 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 Disability Inclusive Personas use?

Disability Inclusive Personas is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Disability Inclusive Personas use?

About 987 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Disability Inclusive Personas?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Disability Inclusive Personas: Design Handoff Spec (getcrew44/crew44, 356 stars), Implementing Drag Drop (ancoleman/ai-design-components, 525 stars), Kanban Board (thedaviddias/ux-patterns-for-developers, 259 stars) and Web Interface Guidelines Reviewer (vercel-labs/openreview, 1.7k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Disability Inclusive Personas?

Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills, which has 105 GitHub stars. The repository holds 55 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 9, 2026.

Source: Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.