antislop-human

Anti Slop: Rules for AI Coding Agents. Human skill

Part of the antislop system. Read together with antislop.md (the core). This skill deep-dives the human concern: the UI must stay usable by people with different eyes, hands, and setups. Contrast, keyboard, focus, states, and the mobile details that exclude people.

How to use this skill

• Load together with antislop.md whenever the task builds or edits UI. The core holds the mechanism (the purpose test, the three tiers, the Delivery Gate); this skill holds the human-side depth: the parts of a UI that exclude people with different eyes, hands, and setups.
• Every entry has the same shape: Tell (the pattern), Why (who it excludes, and why it reads as unfinished), Fix (what to do instead), with the governing core rule cited as R-XX.
• Accessibility is not a checklist of extras bolted on at the end. It is part of the core promise that "the UI holds up" (C-4). The Delivery Gate in the core remains the gate; the "Human Skill Checklist" at the end of this file is the supplement to run alongside it.
• The contrast checker (formula + reference table + script) lives in this skill. Use it for every color pairing you cannot verify by eye.
• This skill keeps only the mobile details that exclude people: zooming, and the on-screen keyboard.

Color & Contrast

Low-Contrast Text

• Tell: light grey text on a white or near-white background, thin body text, muted labels chosen because they look "elegant" but are hard to read.
• Why: it excludes low-vision users and everyone in bright light. It is a visual choice made without checking the standard, which is exactly the kind of default the filter exists to catch.
• Fix: meet WCAG AA minimums (R-25): 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text (18px+). Compute the ratio; do not eyeball it.

Text Over a Photo or Gradient