{"slug":"html-semantics-accessibility-review","title":"html-semantics-accessibility-review","summary":"Review HTML markup and rendered DOM structure for correct native-element usage, valid heading/landmark hierarchy, and WAI-ARIA APG-conformant custom-widget patterns; produce a WCAG 2.2-grounded verdict with APG pattern citations for every custom interactive control, flagging anyt","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:14.491069Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: html-semantics-accessibility-review\ndescription: Review HTML markup and rendered DOM structure for correct native-element usage, valid heading/landmark hierarchy, and WAI-ARIA APG-conformant custom-widget patterns; produce a WCAG 2.2-grounded verdict with APG pattern citations for every custom interactive control, flagging anything that needs live screen-reader verification beyond static review.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob Bash(git diff:*) WebFetch\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-07-02\"\ncategory: compliance</h2>\n<h1>HTML Semantics &amp; Accessibility Review</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Automated a11y linters (axe, Lighthouse) catch roughly 30-50% of WCAG issues by design — they cannot verify whether a custom widget's keyboard interaction matches its intended pattern, whether ARIA correctly reflects (or wrongly overrides) native semantics, or whether a heading/landmark outline actually helps a screen-reader user navigate. This skill performs the manual, spec-grounded review that closes that gap: matching every custom interactive element against a specific WAI-ARIA APG pattern, verifying heading/landmark structure, and catching redundant or conflicting ARIA before it ships.</p>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>review a pull request or component for HTML semantics or accessibility correctness,</li>\n<li>verify a custom widget (modal, dropdown, tabs, combobox, accordion, etc.) against WAI-ARIA APG patterns,</li>\n<li>audit heading level and landmark structure on a page or component tree,</li>\n<li>check whether ARIA roles/states/properties are correctly applied or redundant/conflicting with native semantics,</li>\n<li>assess WCAG 2.2 conformance risk for markup changes ahead of a compliance audit.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Context7 Documentation Protocol</h2>\n<p>Element semantics, implicit ARIA-role mappings, and attribute-support tables change as the HTML and ARIA specs evolve — never assert them from memory.</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Call <code>ToolSearch</code> with query <code>\"context7\"</code> (or <code>\"select:mcp__Context7__resolve-library-id,mcp__Context7__query-docs\"</code>) to load the Context7 tools if they are not already loaded in this session.</li>\n<li>Call <code>mcp__Context7__resolve-library-id</code> for the relevant documentation set — for this skill that is almost always MDN (<code>/mdn/content</code>, or <code>/websites/developer_mozilla_en-us</code> if the former lacks coverage for the query). Resolve the WAI-ARIA APG or WCAG spec source too if the review needs primary-spec wording rather than MDN's paraphrase.</li>\n<li>Call <code>mcp__Context7__query-docs</code> for the specific element, role, or attribute in question — e.g. \"implicit ARIA role for <code>&lt;nav&gt;</code>\", \"APG combobox keyboard pattern\", \"tabindex focus-order behavior\" — before ruling on it. Do this per review, not once from memory of a prior session.</li>\n<li>Prefer the official spec/MDN wording over this skill's own paraphrase when the two could be read to disagree; cite the resolved doc URL in the finding.</li>\n<li>If Context7 is unavailable or returns no relevant match, fall back to the URLs in <code>official_docs</code> / <code>references/apg-pattern-index.md</code>, and explicitly mark the claim <code>documentation-based (Context7 unavailable)</code> rather than presenting it as freshly verified.</li>\n<li>Never invent an ARIA role, state, property, or implicit-semantics mapping that no queried source confirms.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>First rule of ARIA: no ARIA is better than bad ARIA. Prefer a native element (<code>&lt;button&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;dialog&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;details&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;nav&gt;</code>) over a JS-reimplemented equivalent with ARIA bolted on, unless the platform genuinely has no equivalent.</li>\n<li>Never accept 'axe/Lighthouse passed' as sufficient evidence for a custom interactive widget — manually match it against a specific APG pattern URL, including its full keyboard model (not just Tab/Enter — Escape, Home, End, Arrow keys per the pattern).</li>\n<li>Treat heading-level skips (h1→h3) and missing/duplicate landmarks as blocking findings, not style notes — they break screen-reader page-navigation shortcuts.</li>\n<li>Never approve positive <code>tabindex</code> values; require <code>tabindex=\"0\"</code>/<code>\"-1\"</code> plus correct DOM order instead.</li>\n<li>Flag <code>aria-hidden=\"true\"</code> on any ancestor of a focusable/interactive descendant — this creates an unreachable-but-focusable or reachable-but-hidden trap.</li>\n<li>Query current MDN/WAI-ARIA APG docs (see Context7 Documentation Protocol) for the specific element/role in question before ruling; element semantics and ARIA support tables change with spec updates — never assert support/behavior from memory.</li>\n<li>Anything requiring live screen-reader verification (actual NVDA/JAWS/VoiceOver behavior) gets flagged as a residual risk, not asserted as verified from static review alone.</li>\n<li>Label every claim as <code>live evidence</code>, <code>spec-cited</code>, <code>documentation-based</code>, or <code>inference</code> so the reviewer knows what's actually been verified vs. reasoned about.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/wcag-criterion-mapping.md\">WCAG success-criterion mapping</a> — use when a finding needs to be tied to a specific WCAG 2.2 success criterion for a compliance-audit deliverable.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/apg-pattern-index.md\">APG pattern quick-index</a> — use when identifying which APG pattern matches a given custom widget (modal, combobox, tabs, tree, menu, disclosure, etc.) before doing the deep keyboard-model comparison.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/heading-landmark-rules.md\">Heading and landmark structure rules</a> — use when auditing page-level or component-tree-level outline structure, including nested-landmark and multiple-landmark-of-same-type edge cases.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the element/component in scope and its semantic verdict (native-element compliant / needs ARIA / needs restructure),</li>\n<li>for any custom interactive widget: the specific APG pattern URL cited, or an explicit flag that none matches and a native element should be used instead,</li>\n<li>the heading/landmark outline diff (before/after) when structure changed,</li>\n<li>every ARIA attribute added or removed, with its WAI-ARIA 1.2 role/state justification,</li>\n<li>residual risk notes for anything requiring live assistive-technology verification beyond this static review.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1533,"isText":true},{"path":"references/apg-pattern-index.md","sizeBytes":5056,"isText":true},{"path":"references/heading-landmark-rules.md","sizeBytes":4821,"isText":true},{"path":"references/wcag-criterion-mapping.md","sizeBytes":4639,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":6125,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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