gh-a11y

gh a11y [flags]

gh a11y is an alias for gh accessibility. It displays guidance on GitHub CLI's accessibility experiences and how to enable them. The command itself only prints guidance; individual features are turned on through gh config set or environment variables.Accessible colors: enables a 4-bit ANSI color palette with increased contrast based on the terminal background. Enable with `gh config set accessiblecolors enabled` or the `GHACCESSIBLE_COLORS` environment variable.Label colors: displays issue and pull request label colors using their custom RGB hex values in true-color terminals. Enable with `gh config set colorlabels enabled` or the `GHCOLOR_LABELS` environment variable.Accessible prompter: replaces cursor-manipulating interactive prompts with non-interactive equivalents that work correctly with speech synthesizers and braille displays. Enable with `gh config set accessibleprompter enabled` or the `GHACCESSIBLE_PROMPTER` environment variable.Text-based spinners: replaces animated spinner characters with plain text progress indicators. Enable with `gh config set spinner disabled` or the `GHSPINNERDISABLED` environment variable.

-w, --web

Open the GitHub Accessibility site in the default web browser.

Show help for command.

Accessibility features were introduced as a public preview in GitHub CLI v2.72.0. This is a built-in core command, not a separately installed extension. Running `gh a11y` alone only displays guidance text.

GitHub CLI accessibility features were announced in May 2025 as a public preview, with gh accessibility (and its gh a11y alias) added to surface the available settings.

gh-accessibility(1), gh(1), gh-config(1)