Enabling accessibility features

In order to provide a more streamlined screen reader experience, the gcloud command-line tool comes with an accessibility/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, use gcloud help . This runs a search for all commands with help text matching the given argument or arguments.

Refining gcloud CLI output

• To adjust the verbosity level of a command, you can set the gcloud CLI flag --verbosity with either debug, info, warning, error, critical, or none.
• For list commands, you can further refine your output by using the --limit flag 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 service lists output in pages. To sort, use the --sort-by flag with the relevant field to sort.
• To disable interactive prompting, use the --quiet flag.
• To structure and produce more meaningful output, you can use the format, 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 tabulated or flattened version of your output (for interactive display) or a machine-readable version of the output (json, csv, yaml, value).
  • To format a list of keys that select resource data values, use projections .
  • 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, use gcloud feedback to help improve the gcloud CLI experience. This command will open the public issue tracker in a browser window.

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