In order to provide a more streamlined screen reader experience, the gcloudcommand-line tool comes with anaccessibility/screen_reader property.When this property is set to true, the following behaviour is enabled:

• Status trackers instead of unicode spinners: The phrase 'working' is displayed on stderr while gcloud is performing tasks.
• Percentage progress bars: Progress is displayed as a percentage, outputted to stderr.
• Flattened tables: Boxed tables are the default output of many list commands. Instead of the queried resources being displayed in tables drawn in Unicode, results are rendered as a flattened list of items. Also, consider using the--format flag to define your own format.

To enable these accessibility features, run:

gcloud config set accessibility/screen_reader true

Additional resources

Alternate documentation experiences

• To search the gcloud CLI reference docs for a keyword or command, usegcloud help. This runs a search for allcommands with help text matching the given argument or arguments.

Refining gcloud CLI output

• To adjust the verbosity level of a command, you can set thegcloud CLI flag--verbosity with either debug, info,warning, error, critical, or none.
• For list commands, you can further refine your output by using the--limitflag to set a maximum number of resources to list. You can also use the--page-size flag to define the number of resources per page if the servicelists output in pages. To sort, use the--sort-by flag with the relevantfield to sort.
• To disable interactive prompting, use the--quiet flag.
• To structure and produce more meaningful output, you can use theformat, filter and projection flags to fine-tune your output.
  • If you'd like to define just the format of your output, use the--format flag to produce a tabulatedor flattened version of your output (for interactive display) or amachine-readable version of the output (json, csv, yaml, value).
  • To format a list of keys that select resource data values,useprojections.
  • To further refine your output to a criteria you'd like to define,use the--filter flag.

Filing feedback

To file a bug, provide feedback, or send suggestions, usegcloud feedback tohelp improve the gcloud CLI experience. This command willopen the public issue tracker in a browser window.

You can also directly log issues usingissue tracker.Be sure to toggle the 'Type' field to reflect the nature of the issue you'refiling (Bug, Feature Request, etc.) to help make responses more efficient.