Ask Claude to Audit Your Frontend for Accessibility Issues

Screen readers, keyboard users, and folks with low vision shouldn't be afterthoughts — paste your component code and ask Claude to find what accessibility tools would flag.

Ask Claude: "Audit this component for WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility issues. List each problem,
explain why it matters, and show the corrected code."

Claude checks for missing alt attributes, incorrect ARIA roles, missing for/id pairings on labels, keyboard trap risks, and focus management issues — and rewrites the component with fixes applied:

// Before
<div onClick={handleClick} style={{ color: '#aaa' }}>Submit</div>

// After (Claude's fix)
<button
  onClick={handleClick}
  type="button"
  aria-label="Submit form"
  className="text-gray-700" // sufficient contrast ratio
>
  Submit
</button>

For larger apps, point Claude at your component directory and ask for a prioritised audit — it'll rank issues by WCAG conformance level (A, AA, AAA) so you know what to tackle first.

You can also ask Claude to generate an axe-core or jest-axe test suite to catch regressions automatically:

it('has no accessibility violations', async () => {
  const { container } = render(<Button>Submit</Button>);
  expect(await axe(container)).toHaveNoViolations();
});

Accessibility bugs are invisible until they're not — catch them in code review, not in user complaints.