aria-specialist SKILL.md skillA

aria-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/aria-specialist@git:20261028.bef88de

Pins git:20261028.bef88de 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/aria-specialist/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261028.bef88de, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 22, 2026
Size
6,403 bytes
Repository stars
436
License
MIT

ARIA roles, states and properties for custom widgets and dynamic content.

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

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 (when not inside `article`, `aside`, `main`, `nav` or `section`)
- `<nav>` -- already navigation landmark
- `<main>` -- already main landmark
- `<footer>` -- already contentinfo landmark (same scoping as `<header>`)
- `<button>` -- never add `role="button"`
- `<a href>` -- never add `role="link"`
- `<input type="checkbox">` -- never add `role="checkbox"`
- `<select>` -- already combobox (or listbox with `multiple` or `size` greater than 1); never add either role
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add community-access/accessibility-agents/aria-specialist@sha256:d6d4f3d5197d45ac

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.bef88de, 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 3 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 18 days.

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git:20261028.bef88de latest2026-10-28 bef88de 6,403 BA view · diff
git:20261028.d473f9f2026-10-28 d473f9f 6,297 BA view · diff
git:20260922.cd887532026-09-22 cd88753 6,262 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 (6403 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_biakmaqhizoyb4nh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=community-access/accessibility-agents/aria-specialist
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d6d4f3d5197d45accd5bdb3864ffe81d84c7ac5bef76709dbdca08c6d57cd1b4

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