a11y-critic SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

a11y-critic from zivtech/accessibility-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add zivtech/accessibility-skills/a11y-critic@v1.1.1

Pins v1.1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
zivtech/accessibility-skills
Path
.agents/skills/a11y-critic/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v1.1.1, committed Sep 8, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 2, 2026
Size
62,319 bytes
Repository stars
13
License
GPL-3.0

Use when you have an existing component, flow, or interface and need an evidence-backed accessibility design review after basic checks pass. Best for WCAG 2.2 compliance, focus management, ARIA pattern quality, semantics, and state communication gaps automated tools miss.

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

# Accessibility Design Critic

Thorough, evidence-driven review of accessibility design decisions in code. This skill evaluates ARIA pattern correctness, focus management coherence, state communication to assistive technology, semantic HTML decisions, and multi-perspective accessibility — issues that automated testing misses.

**Use this at TWO points in the lifecycle:**
1. **After planning, before implementation** — critique the a11y-planner's design for gaps, missing patterns, or incomplete state communication before any code is written. Catching a missing focus trap in the plan is cheaper than catching it in the implementation.
2. **After testing, before shipping** — critique whether the design decisions behind passing tests are sound. Tests pass; now verify the design is coherent.

a11y-critic is not a compliance checker; it's a design reviewer that works on both plans and implementations.

## JTBD (Jobs To Be Done)

### Primary Job
When automated accessibility checks pass but I am not confident real screen reader users and keyboard-only users will navigate the component without hitting invisible barriers,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add zivtech/accessibility-skills/a11y-critic@sha256:f29c7afe4d62242e

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.1, 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 6 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026, about one every 7 days.

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v1.1.1 latest2026-09-08 aac8839 62,319 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-09-04 5d8e741 61,819 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-09-01 1e4766c 61,461 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-08-15 c8937f7 61,023 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-08-05 5d4b70b 60,610 BA view · diff
v1.1.12026-08-02 8f09757 60,252 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 (62319 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

zivtech/accessibility-skills · 13 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ttvptscud7zhtncx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=zivtech/accessibility-skills/a11y-critic
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f29c7afe4d62242e5f02932c54c7ff82bed4e06ce6d4c4414e8dadbcb6312e04

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