Case Study: Using Claude CoWork for Website Accessibility
April marks the start of real enforcement pressure for public institutions, as Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act deadlines begin and larger entities are required to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
For anyone who has worked on the Web, you know how difficult compliance can be. There are a million tiny details that you need to track.
This is the perfect problem for GenAI to help solve since pattern recognition is what it does best. So, last night, I ran a small experiment with Claude CoWork to see if I could build an agentic prompt that would audit a website for accessibility compliance.
The task:
- Scan my site: thebradking.com
- Evaluate against WCAG 2.1
- Generate a page-by-page PDF report with issues and suggested fixes
- Create a local HTML overlay that maps those fixes directly onto each page
- The goal was to create a workable tool you could actually use to fix the site.
I didn’t write the prompt from scratch. I used CoWork itself to help shape it. Once it ran successfully (you can see the PDF and HTML output), I asked Claude to turn it into a shareable format.
Making It Shareable
Once I got the prompt working, I asked Claude to generalize the workflow into a Skill. That’s important because once it’s a skill, it becomes a shareable prompt toolchain. Anyone can download the Skill, add it to Claude, and when you run the skill, Claude will:
- Ask which URLs you want to audit
- Run the accessibility checks
- Generate reports and a working HTML guide for fixes
I just built this last night, so I’m still testing how smooth the Skill transfer process is. (Truthfully, it’s a little wonky—and you’ll probably need to restart the desktop app after adding URLs).
But if you’re interested in trying it, I’m happy to share it. If you’d like access, please send me a note, and I’ll share the download link.
Once you do that, just upload the skill file, drop it into Settings → Skills, and it’s ready to go.
All I ask is simple: tell me what breaks, what works, and what you’d improve.
