Accessibility

You MUST use this skill for ANY accessibility work including VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, color contrast, WCAG compliance, and UX flow auditing.

Can't launch Axiom agents? Where this router sends you to an agent, follow its procedure inline. Over MCP, axiom_get_agent returns it; elsewhere, read its file below, which needs only file search and read.

Available here: skills/accessibility-auditor.md. Homed in another suite: axiom-concurrency/skills/concurrency-auditor.md, axiom-data/skills/swiftdata-auditor.md, axiom-swiftui/skills/swiftui-nav-auditor.md, axiom-swiftui/skills/ux-flow-auditor.md.

For any other agent, over MCP axiom_get_agent returns it too; run its xclog, xcsym and xcprof steps with the axiom_xclog_*, axiom_xcsym_* and axiom_xcprof_* tools. Elsewhere, search Axiom's skills for skills/<agent>.md; if there is none, do that work yourself with this suite's skills, using any Axiom tool on your PATH.

Quick Reference

Cross-Suite Routes

• Full watchOS development context → See axiom-watchos
• Live accessibility validation on the simulator (set toggles, assert announcements) → simulator-tester agent + xcui — see axiom-tools (skills/xcui-ref.md)
• Asserting VoiceOver speech in an XCUITest (XCUIDevice.shared.voiceOverService, OS27) → axiom-testing (skills/ui-testing.md Pattern 7)

Decision Tree

digraph accessibility {
    start [label="Accessibility issue" shape=ellipse];
    what [label="What type?" shape=diamond];

    start -> what;
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="VoiceOver/labels/hints"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="Dynamic Type"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="color contrast"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="touch targets"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="keyboard nav"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="resizable window / desktop-class"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="Reduce Motion"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="Assistive Access"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="custom control techniques"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="continuous reading / text navigation"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="captions / subtitle styling"];
    what -> "skills/accessibility-diag.md" [label="App Store prep / Nutrition Labels"];
    what -> "skills/ux-flow-audit.md" [label="UX dead end/dismiss trap"];
    what -> "skills/ux-flow-audit.md" [label="missing states"];
    what -> "skills/watchos-a11y.md" [label="watchOS VoiceOver / AssistiveTouch / Double Tap"];
    what -> "accessibility-auditor" [label="automated scan" shape=box];
}

1. ANY VoiceOver, Dynamic Type (including tvOS Large Text), contrast, touch target, or WCAG issue → skills/accessibility-diag.md
2. Assistive Access (cognitive disabilities, iOS 17+) → skills/accessibility-diag.md
3. Accessibility Nutrition Labels, or an App Review note about accessibility → skills/accessibility-diag.md
4. Reading app: VoiceOver stops at paragraphs/pages, Speak Screen halts → skills/accessibility-diag.md
5. UX dead ends, dismiss traps, buried CTAs, missing states → skills/ux-flow-audit.md
6. watchOS-specific accessibility (rotor on Digital Crown, AssistiveTouch, Double Tap) → skills/watchos-a11y.md
7. Want automated accessibility scan? → accessibility-auditor agent or /axiom:audit accessibility

Automated Scanning

Accessibility audit → Launch accessibility-auditor agent or /axiom:audit accessibility

• VoiceOver labels and hints
• Dynamic Type violations
• Color contrast failures
• WCAG compliance scanning

UX flow audit → Launch ux-flow-auditor agent

• Dead-end views, dismiss traps
• Buried CTAs, missing empty/loading/error states
• Deep link dead ends, accessibility dead ends

Critical Patterns

Image Accessibility

• Use Image(decorative: "photo") for purely decorative images — automatically hidden from VoiceOver (equivalent to accessibilityHidden(true) but semantically clearer)
• Use accessibilityInputLabels() for buttons with complex or changing labels — improves Voice Control accuracy by providing alternative labels
• Respect accessibilityDifferentiateWithoutColor environment value — when active, provide non-color cues (icons, patterns, labels) alongside color indicators

Anti-Rationalization

Example Invocations

User: "My button isn't being read by VoiceOver" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "How do I support Dynamic Type?" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "Check my app for accessibility issues" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "Prepare for App Store accessibility review" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "Scan my app for accessibility issues automatically" → Launch accessibility-auditor agent

User: "How do I support Assistive Access?" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "How do I prepare my tvOS app for Large Text?" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "VoiceOver reads my screen in the wrong order after the window resizes" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "How do I support Button Shapes / the Large Content Viewer in my custom controls?" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "VoiceOver stops reading at the end of each page in my book app" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "How do I let users restyle subtitles or get generated captions in my video player?" → See skills/accessibility-diag.md

User: "Check for UX dead ends and dismiss traps" → See skills/ux-flow-audit.md

User: "My fullScreenCover has no way to dismiss" → See skills/ux-flow-audit.md

User: "Are there missing empty states in my app?" → See skills/ux-flow-audit.md