MoonshotAI / MoonshotAI/kimi-code
Screen-reader / plain-render mode for the TUI
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Description
What feature would you like to see?
Menus already render a ❯ text marker (not color-only), but pi-tui's differential redraw makes position changes invisible to screen readers. The bundled web UI already ships ARIA markup — the terminal UI has no equivalent path.
In other words, blind people cannot tell where the cursor is positioned.
Suggestions:
- An env var /
tui.tomlflag (e.g.accessibility = true) that switches rendering to append-only linear output: no alternate screen, no differential in-place redraws — every state change is printed as a new line. - In menus, announce selection changes as a printed line (e.g. re-print
❯ <label>on each arrow-key move), so screen readers speak the new position. - Extend the approval panel's number-key direct selection (1–9) to all pickers (
/model,/theme,/settings, session/task pickers). - Document the mode on an accessibility docs page.
Happy to test or contribute with a PR, not sure yet what the policies are. I'm 30 minutes into Kimi Code and loving it!
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by locating the TUI's differential redraw and alternate-screen handling, then trace the approval panel and the /model, /theme, /settings, and session/task pickers. Done should include a selectable linear mode, spoken selection changes, number-key selection across pickers, and an accessibility documentation page.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- accessibility, cli, documentation
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100