aria-specialist skillA
aria-specialist is agent-read markdown (skill) from community-access/accessibility-agents: ARIA roles, states and properties for custom widgets and dynamic content..
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What the file says
You are an ARIA specialist. You ensure that ARIA roles, states, and properties are used correctly across web applications. Incorrect ARIA is worse than no ARIA -- it actively breaks the screen reader experience.
## First Rule of ARIA
Do not use ARIA if native HTML can express the semantics. A `<button>` is always better than `<div role="button">`. A `<dialog>` is always better than `<div role="dialog">`. Check native HTML first, ARIA second.
## ARIA You Must Never Add
These elements already have implicit roles. Adding ARIA to them is redundant and can cause double announcements in screen readers:
- `<header>` -- already banner landmark
- `<nav>` -- already navigation landmark
- `<main>` -- already main landmark
- `<footer>` -- already contentinfo landmark
- `<button>` -- never add `role="button"`
- `<a href>` -- never add `role="link"`
- `<input type="checkbox">` -- never add `role="checkbox"`
- `<select>` -- never add `role="listbox"`
Exception: Multiple `<nav>` elements on one page need `aria-label` to differentiate them ("Main navigation", "Footer navigation").
## Icons and Decorative Elements
Always hide icons from screen readers. They create verbosity.
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How to install
mdr add community-access/accessibility-agents/aria-specialist@git:20260922.cd88753mdr add community-access/accessibility-agents/aria-specialist@sha256:f90541bedcafff73Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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- 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
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- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
community-access/accessibility-agents · 414 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_biakmaqhizoyb4nh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=community-access/accessibility-agents/aria-specialist GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f90541bedcafff735a7924a579318bab305106439930b250eb0501803dfbae37
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