Agent skill

Situational Impairment Mapping

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

Map situational impairments that affect all users in specific contexts — not just people with permanent disabilities.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Situational Impairment Mapping

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills --skill situational-impairment-mapping -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills situational-impairment-mapping --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/situational-impairment-mapping .claude/skills/situational-impairment-mapping && 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
situational-impairment-mapping
GitHub stars
105
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
481 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
55
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Map situational impairments that affect all users in specific contexts — not just people with permanent disabilities.

  • Works in 4 steps: Pick a situational impairment relevant… → Attempt the task under that constraint → Document where the design fails or… → …
  • Designing for mobile
  • SKILL.md covers Why This Matters, The Impairment Spectrum, How to Use This Map and Context Audit Template, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Situational Impairment Mapping is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. Map situational impairments that affect all users in specific contexts — not just people with permanent disabilities. Use when designing for mobile, outdoor, noisy, stressful, or multitasking contexts. Triggers on: situational, context of use, environment, one-handed, bright sunlight, noisy, driving, multitasking, gloves, temporary disability, context, edge case.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k 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. 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

  • Designing for mobile
  • Multitasking contexts
  • Bright sunlight
  • Temporary disability

Example prompts

  • “/situational-impairment-mapping”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Pick a situational impairment relevant to your product context
  2. Attempt the task under that constraint
  3. Document where the design fails or creates friction
  4. Propose fixes that work for the situational case — they'll

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

Situational Impairment Mapping loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 481 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

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). 481 words, ~1,033 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/situational-impairment-mapping/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
situational-impairment-mapping
description
Map situational impairments that affect all users in specific contexts — not just people with permanent disabilities. Use when designing for mobile, outdoor, noisy, stressful, or multitasking contexts. Triggers on: situational, context of use, environment, one-handed, bright sunlight, noisy, driving, multitasking, gloves, temporary disability, context, edge case.

Situational Impairment Mapping

Map the situations where ANY user experiences impairment — because accessibility isn't just about permanent disability. It's about the reality that every human has reduced capability in certain contexts.

Why This Matters

Situational impairment is the argument that makes accessibility resonate with stakeholders who think "our users aren't disabled." Every user IS impaired in the right context. Designing for impairment is designing for reality.

The Impairment Spectrum

For each sense and ability, map permanent, temporary, and situational:

Vision
  • Permanent: blind, low vision, colour vision deficiency
  • Temporary: eye surgery recovery, dilated pupils, eye infection
  • Situational: bright sunlight, dirty screen, small screen at arm's length, driving (eyes on road)
Hearing
  • Permanent: deaf, hard of hearing
  • Temporary: ear infection, tinnitus flare-up
  • Situational: noisy pub, public transport, sleeping partner nearby, no headphones available, wearing ear protection
Motor
  • Permanent: paralysis, tremor, limb difference, arthritis
  • Temporary: broken arm, sprained wrist, holding a baby
  • Situational: wearing gloves, carrying bags, one hand holding a coffee, bumpy train, standing on a bus
Cognitive
  • Permanent: ADHD, dyslexia, intellectual disability
  • Temporary: concussion, medication side effects, chemotherapy
  • Situational: sleep deprived, stressed, grieving, multitasking, unfamiliar language, time pressure, emotional distress
Speech
  • Permanent: stutter, non-verbal, atypical speech
  • Temporary: laryngitis, dental procedure, throat surgery
  • Situational: quiet library, loud environment (can't be heard), privacy concerns (others listening)

How to Use This Map

In Design Reviews

For each feature, walk through the impairment spectrum:

  1. Pick a situational impairment relevant to your product context
  2. Attempt the task under that constraint
  3. Document where the design fails or creates friction
  4. Propose fixes that work for the situational case — they'll also work for the permanent case
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In Stakeholder Conversations

When someone says "our users aren't disabled":

  • "40% of your users are on mobile in varying conditions"
  • "Every user on a train has a motor impairment"
  • "Every user in a loud café has a hearing impairment"
  • "Every user at the end of a long day has a cognitive impairment"
  • The solutions that help these users are the same solutions that help users with permanent disabilities
In Persona Development

Add a "context of use" section to every persona that includes:

  • Primary environment (office, home, commute, outdoors)
  • Common situational impairments in that environment
  • Devices and conditions (mobile on a bus, laptop in a café)

Context Audit Template

For your specific product, fill in:

User contextVisual impactHearing impactMotor impactCognitive impact
CommutingGlare, small screenBackground noiseOne hand, movementDistracted
At deskMinimalOpen office noiseMinimalMeeting fatigue
At homeVaried lightingKids, TVPossibly holding childPossibly multitasking
OutdoorsBright sun, rainWind, trafficGloves, cold handsNavigation distraction

Assessment Questions

  1. Have you mapped situational impairments for your product's primary use contexts?
  2. Have you tested key tasks under realistic situational constraints?
  3. Does your persona set include context-of-use with situational impairments?
  4. Can stakeholders articulate how accessibility benefits all users in context?

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Files

Just SKILL.md in inclusive-personas/skills/situational-impairment-mapping of Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e0740f

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Questions about Situational Impairment Mapping

What does Situational Impairment Mapping do?

Map situational impairments that affect all users in specific contexts — not just people with permanent disabilities. Situational Impairment Mapping is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. Map situational impairments that affect all users in specific contexts — not just people with permanent disabilities.

When should I use Situational Impairment Mapping?

Situational Impairment Mapping fits situations like: designing for mobile; multitasking contexts; bright sunlight; temporary disability.

How do I install Situational Impairment Mapping in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Situational Impairment Mapping in Codex?

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

Can I use Situational Impairment Mapping 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 situational-impairment-mapping -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/situational-impairment-mapping, .gemini/skills/situational-impairment-mapping, .github/skills/situational-impairment-mapping and .opencode/skills/situational-impairment-mapping in your project.

What does Situational Impairment Mapping need to run?

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

Does Situational Impairment Mapping 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 Situational Impairment Mapping 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 Situational Impairment Mapping use?

Situational Impairment Mapping 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 Situational Impairment Mapping use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k 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 Situational Impairment Mapping?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Situational Impairment Mapping: Web Artifacts Builder (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), React Doctor (makeplane/plane, 61k stars), Impeccable (bestofjs/bestofjs, 3.1k stars) and Figma Design System Builder (warpdotdev/warp, 65k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Situational Impairment Mapping?

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.