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Accessibility Compliance

A practical WCAG 2.2 AA toolkit for news and academic sites: alt text rules, accessible charts, keyboard patterns, and automated axe-core audits.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 403⑂ 66AI score 9/10Last updated: Sep 25, 2026

What it does

  • WCAG 2.2 AA checklists organized around POUR, plus the 2.2-specific criteria that matter most for publishers (24×24px target size, focus not obscured by sticky headers, accessible authentication, no redundant entry).
  • Alt text guidance with a decision tree and good/bad examples for news photos, headshots, chart images, and AI-generated illustrations (including required provenance disclosure in alt text).
  • Accessible data visualization: a copy-paste <figure> + data-table HTML pattern, Paul Tol colorblind-safe palettes (categorical, sequential, diverging), and a Python WCAG contrast-ratio function.
  • Keyboard, motion, and form patterns: skip links, modal focus-trap handling, prefers-reduced-motion gating for CSS and JS, and aria-describedby / aria-invalid error messaging.
  • Testing workflow: version-pinned axe-core injected locally via Playwright, a violation formatter, and a manual checklist for screen readers, zoom, and grayscale.
  • Legal summary for US (Section 508, ADA Title II/III, HHS 504) and EU (EAA, EN 301 549) with compliance deadlines.

Who it's for

  • Frontend developers building newsroom, academic, or public-sector sites
  • Digital editors responsible for image alt text and captions
  • Data journalists shipping interactive charts
  • QA engineers or web leads asked to produce an accessibility audit

Example uses

  1. "Audit our article template against WCAG 2.2 AA" → checklist walkthrough plus the axe-core/Playwright audit script with violations grouped by impact.
  2. "Write alt text for this courthouse protest photo" → a concise WHO/WHAT/WHERE description under 125 characters that doesn't repeat the caption.
  3. "Make our unemployment line chart screen-reader friendly" → figure/figcaption markup with aria-describedby and an expandable data table.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-skills-journalism/dev-toolkit/skills/accessibility-compliance ~/.claude/skills/

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  1. Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, PowerShell on Windows).
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism.git
  3. Create the skills directory if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r claude-skills-journalism/dev-toolkit/skills/accessibility-compliance ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Restart Claude Code and confirm it loaded with /skills.
  6. For the automated audit, also run npm install --save-dev --save-exact axe-core@4.12.1 in your project and pip install playwright && playwright install chromium.
  7. Trigger it with a request like "check this page for accessibility issues" or "write alt text for this image".
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT