# accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization

A Claude and Claude skill that reviews charts, diagrams and dashboards for accessibility: contrast, labels, keyboard paths, text alternatives.

- skill · `type=skill` · Codex, ChatGPT · 11 installs · ★ 7596
- Author: OpenAI · official OpenAI repository
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/build-web-data-visualization/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-08
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization

## What it does

The skill kicks in when a visualization has to stay understandable without color, hover or precise pointer aim. It works out what must remain readable: direct labels, redundant encodings, keyboard paths, reduced-motion behavior.

Inside is a step-by-step working pattern. First identify whether the chart is exploratory, explanatory, interactive or exported. Then separate what an image shows from what the data proves, and check mobile states plus the surrounding narrative. For UML-like, ERD, state machine and architecture diagrams it points to a dedicated diagram skill and asks for a text outline of nodes, groups and relationships.

Export gets its own pass: PDF, static figures, report screenshots. Interactive views are checked for saved views, shared links and back/forward navigation, because the accessible state summary has to restore the same way the visual surface does. The skill ships under MIT from the `openai/plugins` repository, so you need access to it through `npx skills` or `gh skill install`.

## Install

### Codex (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Claude Code

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install openai/plugins accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/openai/plugins --path plugins/build-web-data-visualization/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/build-web-data-visualization/skills/accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check a chart for contrast and color-blind readability
- write alt text and a long description for a complex visual
- make a dashboard usable by keyboard and screen reader
- prepare a figure for PDF export and a static image
- add a reduced-motion path for parallax and animation

## Example prompts
- Make this chart accessible: check contrast, labels and keyboard paths.
- How should I write alt text and a long description for this visualization?
- Review this dashboard for color, keyboard and screen-reader issues.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: accessibility-and-inclusive-visualization
description: Make data visualizations accessible and inclusive. Use when the user needs chart or diagram accessibility guidance, text alternatives for complex visuals, color and contrast review, keyboard support, reduced-motion behavior for animation or parallax, or an accessibility QA workflow for exported figures, UML-like diagrams, and dashboards.
---

# Accessibility and Inclusive Visualization

## Overview

Use this skill when a visualization must be understandable by more people, in more contexts, with more assistive needs. Accessibility is not a post-processing step. It shapes chart selection, color, labeling, interaction, fallback text, and export strategy.

Default assumption: every important visualization should have a non-visual path to the key insight, whether through surrounding text, direct labels, data tables, or formal text alternatives.

## Working Pattern

1. Identify whether the chart is exploratory, explanatory, interactive, or exported.
2. Decide which information must remain available without hover, color discrimination, pointer precision, expanded panels, private persisted state, permission-gated capabilities, or a strong connection.
3. If the story uses generated imagery, illustration, WebGL, particles, 3D, maps, scrollytelling, parallax, or animation, separate what the asset shows from what the data proves.
4. If Codex image generation was used for a layout, figure, page-integration, asset, or key-frame concept, verify that the large-screen and mobile concept images were shown with concise plan and interaction bullets, the user approved the generated design set before project changes or implementation code began, and the semantic design contract from `../../references/foundations/meaning-preserving-visual-design-workflow.md` exists: the accessible path must preserve the same claim, caveat, source context, evidence hierarchy, locked layout elements, mobile continuation, and interaction meaning as the visual design.
5. If the view is a UML-like, ERD, state machine, workflow, dependency, or architecture diagram, preserve a text outline of nodes, groups, relationships, and selected paths; use `../uml-and-software-architecture-visualization/SKILL.md` for diagram-specific semantics.
6. Use `../../references/foundations/mobile-first-responsive-visualization.md` to verify touch targets, drag alternatives, keyboard-open visual viewport behavior, main-visualization visibility, spotty-connection states, and fallbacks for AR, camera, motion, vibration, notifications, and geolocation.
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