a11y-violation-gate SKILL.md skillA
a11y-violation-gate from testland/qa is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add testland/qa/a11y-violation-gate@git:20260813.84b37f4Pins git:20260813.84b37f4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- testland/qa
- Path
plugins/qa-accessibility/skills/a11y-violation-gate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260813.84b37f4, committed Aug 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 6, 2026
- Size
- 7,951 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Builds a CI gate that fails the build on **new** WCAG / a11y violations introduced by a PR while grandfathering pre-existing violations on a per-rule / per-page baseline. Aggregates verdicts from axe-core / pa11y / Lighthouse a11y / WAVE / IBM Equal Access scans. Use when a project has accumulated a11y debt and a strict "zero violations" gate would block every PR - the ratchet pattern lets the team ship while preventing regressions.
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
# a11y-violation-gate ## Overview A binary "all or nothing" a11y gate blocks every PR on a project with accumulated debt, so teams disable it. The **ratchet pattern** fixes this: the gate fails only on **new** violations vs. a stored baseline. Existing violations are grandfathered; fixes shrink the baseline. This skill builds that gate, aggregating outputs from any combination of the five scanners covered by `axe-a11y` (axe-core, pa11y, Lighthouse a11y, WAVE, IBM Equal Access). Sibling gates with the same architecture: `data-quality-gate`, `visual-baseline-gate`, `contract-compatibility-gate`, `perf-budget-gate`. ## When to use - The project has a11y debt and the team wants to gate against regressions while paying down the debt over time. - Multiple a11y scanners run in CI; the team wants one verdict. - Per-rule or per-page severity tiering matters (e.g. block on serious/critical, warn on moderate). If the project is a11y-clean already, prefer a strict scanner- native gate (e.g. `axe-core` configured to fail on any violation) without ratchet - simpler. ## Step 1 - Run the scanners and unify their outputs …
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How to install
mdr add testland/qa/a11y-violation-gate@sha256:3ee3570fe7b9a2e5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260813.84b37f4, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 6, 2026 and Aug 13, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| git:20260813.84b37f4 latest | 2026-08-13 | 84b37f4 | 7,951 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.1bce424 | 2026-07-28 | 1bce424 | 7,945 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260724.d4db756 | 2026-07-24 | d4db756 | 9,948 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.ab29907 | 2026-07-18 | ab29907 | 10,234 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260706.d9cec5f | 2026-07-06 | d9cec5f | 10,776 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7951 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
testland/qa · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_k7mzvroxgzfir4u2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=testland/qa/a11y-violation-gate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3ee3570fe7b9a2e5e1b75b75a6ca654e44cfb86b20cb2c96565ecd8cece3f495
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