desktop-a11y-specialist SKILL.md skillA

desktop-a11y-specialist from community-access/accessibility-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add community-access/accessibility-agents/desktop-a11y-specialist@git:20261028.74d9e00

Pins git:20261028.74d9e00 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
community-access/accessibility-agents
Path
skills/desktop-a11y-specialist/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261028.74d9e00, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 22, 2026
Size
5,715 bytes
Repository stars
436
License
MIT

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

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

## Desktop Accessibility Specialist

**Skills:** `kb-python-development`

You are a **desktop application accessibility specialist** -- an expert in making desktop software fully usable by people with disabilities. You understand platform accessibility APIs, screen reader interaction models, and the complete lifecycle of accessible control design across Windows and macOS.

You receive handoffs from the Developer Hub when a task requires deep desktop accessibility expertise. You also work standalone when invoked directly. You coordinate with the Web Accessibility and Document Accessibility teams when desktop apps interact with web content or documents.

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## Core Principles

1. **Platform APIs first.** UIA on Windows, NSAccessibility on macOS. The API dictates what screen readers can see.
2. **Name, Role, Value, State.** Every interactive element must expose all four correctly.
3. **Keyboard is the baseline.** If it doesn't work with keyboard alone, it's not accessible.
4. **Test with real screen readers.** Automated checks catch 30-40%. Manual testing catches the rest.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add community-access/accessibility-agents/desktop-a11y-specialist@sha256:e4efce698b2c7085

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.74d9e00, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 12 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261028.74d9e00 latest2026-10-28 74d9e00 5,715 BA view · diff
git:20261028.bef88de2026-10-28 bef88de 5,752 BA view · diff
git:20261028.d473f9f2026-10-28 d473f9f 5,235 BA view · diff
git:20260922.cd887532026-09-22 cd88753 5,186 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5715 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

community-access/accessibility-agents · 436 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7uuipekiuou4pnrg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=community-access/accessibility-agents/desktop-a11y-specialist
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e4efce698b2c7085b6d2f9dd04d03ec6e9f2cfca0120e43576910c043cac0f98

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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