Help Url Reference

help-url-reference Skill

Centralized mapping of accessibility rule IDs to their official help documentation URLs. Covers Deque University (axe-core web rules), Microsoft Office support (Word, Excel, PowerPoint accessibility), Adobe PDF accessibility, and WCAG 2.2 Understanding documents. Used by CSV reporter agents to generate actionable links alongside findings.

Agents That Use This Skill

Agent	Why
web-csv-reporter	Maps axe-core rule IDs to Deque University help URLs in CSV exports
document-csv-reporter	Maps Office/PDF rule IDs to Microsoft and Adobe help URLs in CSV exports
markdown-csv-reporter	Maps WCAG criteria and markdownlint rules to help URLs in CSV exports

Coverage

Deque University (Web)

Maps axe-core rule IDs to https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.10/{rule-id} URLs. Covers 20+ common rules including color-contrast, image-alt, label, button-name, link-name, html-has-lang, document-title, heading-order, and more.

Also includes Deque topic page URLs for agent-detected issues without axe-core rule IDs:

• Focus management: https://dequeuniversity.com/class/focus-management2/focus/overview
• Live regions: https://dequeuniversity.com/library/aria/liveregion-playground
• Modal dialogs: https://dequeuniversity.com/library/aria/modal-dialog/sf-modal-dialog
• Data tables: https://dequeuniversity.com/class/tables2/simple/overview

Microsoft Office (Documents)

Maps rule IDs to Microsoft support article URLs:

Format	Rules Covered	Example URL Pattern
Word (DOCX-*)	13 rules	https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/...
Excel (XLSX-*)	11 rules	https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/...
PowerPoint (PPTX-*)	12 rules	https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/...

Adobe PDF

Maps PDF rule IDs (PDFUA., PDFBP., PDFQ.*) to Adobe Acrobat help URLs. Covers 12 categories including tagged PDF, reading order, document title, alt text, form fields, bookmarks, document language, color contrast, logical structure, links, tables, and metadata.

WCAG 2.2 Understanding Documents

Maps WCAG success criteria (e.g., 1.1.1, 1.4.3, 2.1.1) to their W3C Understanding document URLs following the pattern https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/{slug}. Covers 25 commonly cited success criteria.

Application-Specific Fix Steps

The skill also provides templated fix step text for each application:

• Word: Step-by-step instructions referencing Word UI (e.g., "Right-click image, select Edit Alt Text")
• Excel: Instructions referencing Excel UI (e.g., "Right-click sheet tab, select Rename")
• PowerPoint: Instructions referencing PowerPoint UI (e.g., "Select slide, Arrange, Reading Order pane")
• PDF (Acrobat Pro): Instructions referencing Acrobat Pro UI (e.g., "Accessibility panel, Autotag Document")

Skill Location

The full skill file with all URL mappings and fix step templates is at:

.github/skills/help-url-reference/SKILL.md