Make videos accessible with captions
SkillWeb & browsingVideo-accessibility is a skill for AI agents that reviews video players and embeds on web pages for accessibility problems, such as missing captions. It is used when reviewing templates, rendered HTML, or shared components, and it validates the final browser-facing markup rather than just the source framework abstraction. The video claude skill helps catch issues that would otherwise reach users.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
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Have an AI agent that can load skills.
Then ask your AI: use the Make videos accessible with captions skill
What your AI can do with it
- Reviews video players and embeds on web pages for accessibility problems
- Detects missing captions on videos
- Reviews templates, rendered HTML, and shared components
- Validates the final browser-facing markup, not just the source framework abstraction
Getting started
- Have an AI agent that can load skills.
- Add the video-accessibility skill to the agent's available skills.
- Ask the agent to review a template, rendered HTML, or shared component that contains a video player or embed.
- Check the agent's findings for accessibility problems such as missing captions.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thedaviddias/front-end-checklist in skills/video-accessibility/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Videos without captions exclude deaf and hard-of-hearing users, while videos without audio descriptions exclude blind users from understanding visual content.
Quick Reference
- Always provide accurate closed captions (not auto-generated)
- Include audio descriptions for visual content
- Provide text transcripts as an alternative
- Never autoplay videos with sound
Check
Verify videos have accurate closed captions (not auto-generated), audio descriptions for visual content, transcripts, keyboard-accessible pause controls, and no autoplay. Confirm spacebar pauses video without scrolling the page.
Fix
Add track elements for captions and audio descriptions, provide text transcripts, implement global pause controls, disable autoplay, and ensure media controls are keyboard accessible with proper focus management.
Explain
Explain how captions help deaf and hard-of-hearing users, audio descriptions help blind users understand visual content, and pause controls help users with cognitive disabilities who find autoplay disorienting.
Code Review
Review templates, server-rendered HTML, and shared components that output markup related to Make videos accessible with captions. Flag exact elements, attributes, and routes where the rendered HTML violates the rule.
For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see references/rule.md.
Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/html/video-accessibility
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 74k
- Forks
- 7k
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Questions
- When should this skill be used?
- Use it when reviewing templates, rendered HTML, or shared components related to making videos accessible with captions.
- Does it check the source framework code or the rendered output?
- It validates the final browser-facing markup, not just the source framework abstraction.
- What kinds of problems does it look for?
- Accessibility problems on video players and embeds, such as missing captions.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
video-accessibility- Source
- github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist