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Accessibility Compliance (News & Web Publishing)

A WCAG 2.2 AA playbook for auditing and fixing accessibility in websites, images, charts and video.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 363⑂ 61AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 12, 2026

What it does

  • Gives a WCAG 2.2 AA checklist organized by the four POUR principles so you can audit a site step by step.
  • Provides alt text rules for news images (who/what/where, don't echo the caption) plus disclosure guidance for AI-generated imagery.
  • Covers accessible data visualization: colorblind-safe Paul Tol palettes, a WCAG contrast-ratio function, and a <figure> + data-table HTML pattern.
  • Includes keyboard patterns: skip links, modal focus-trap handling, :focus-visible styles, and prefers-reduced-motion support.
  • Shows accessible form and error markup using aria-describedby, aria-invalid, and role="alert".
  • Ships an automated audit recipe: pinned axe-core injected via Playwright, with violation formatting.
  • Summarizes legal baselines: Section 508, ADA Title II/III, HHS 504, the EU Accessibility Act and EN 301 549 with deadlines.

Who it's for

  • Newsroom and media front-end developers, data journalists
  • Teams building government, university, or public-sector sites
  • Anyone needing to reduce ADA/EAA compliance risk
  • Editors who want to write proper alt text for article images

Examples

  1. "Audit this article template against WCAG 2.2 AA" → checklist-by-checklist findings with suggested fixes.
  2. "Draft three alt text options for this courthouse protest photo" → concise, caption-complementary descriptions under 125 characters.
  3. "Make this unemployment line chart screen-reader friendly" → figure/aria structure, collapsible data table, and a colorblind-safe palette.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Copy the dev-toolkit/skills/accessibility-compliance folder from the GitHub repo jamditis/claude-skills-journalism into my ~/.claude/skills/accessibility-compliance/.
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Install with a command instead

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/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, Git Bash or WSL on Windows).
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism.git
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r claude-skills-journalism/dev-toolkit/skills/accessibility-compliance ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify it landed: ls ~/.claude/skills/accessibility-compliance/SKILL.md
  6. Optional, for the automated audit: run npm install --save-dev --save-exact axe-core@4.12.1 in your project and pip install playwright && playwright install chromium.
  7. Restart Claude Code and ask something like "audit this page for accessibility" — the skill activates automatically.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT