Add toggle/config for CLI spinner (accessibility)
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Feb 15, 2026 by BlindMaster24 Closed Mar 29, 2026
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What variant of Codex are you using?
CLI
What feature would you like to see?
Please add a setting to enable/disable or customize the spinner in Codex CLI.
I am blind / visually impaired, and constant spinner animation can make screen-reader use harder.
It would be great to have an accessibility option (for example: spinner on/off, reduced updates, or a simpler mode).
Additional information
Default behavior can stay the same for sighted users, but an explicit accessibility toggle would help a lot.
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You can disable all animations in the TUI by adding this to your config.toml file.
We added this configuration switch at the request of other users who wanted to use screen readers.
Even after this change, the spinner still runs and my screen reader keeps announcing '1, 2, 3, 4' repeatedly. Could you add an option to disable or quiet
spinner updates for accessibility?
When you say "spinner", can you be more specific about which workflow or feature is triggering this behavior? All animations should be gated by the
tui.animationsswitch, but it's possible that we recently added a new one that's not properly gated.I asked codex to audit the code base to find any animations that are not gated by
tui.animations. It found one that was recently added. I'll work on a fix for this.