Accessibility
Reduced motion, safe glyphs, color controls and known assistive-technology limits.
Choose quieter presentation
NMSh-owned surfaces support reduced motion, safe glyphs and color controls. These affect frontend presentation, not arbitrary output written by your programs.
NMSH_REDUCED_MOTION=1 NMSH_ICONS=safe nmshNMSH_REDUCED_MOTION=1 holds decorative motion still while durations continue to
count. NMSH_ICONS=safe requests ASCII-safe glyphs when fonts or character widths
make decorative symbols unreliable.
Color controls
| Environment | Effect |
|---|---|
Non-empty NO_COLOR | Suppress NMSh-generated color escapes |
TERM=dumb | Also suppress NMSh-generated color escapes |
NMSH_COLOR=none | Explicit no-color override |
NMSH_COLOR=256 | Explicit xterm 256-color mapping |
NMSH_COLOR=truecolor | Explicit full-color override |
The explicit NMSH_COLOR choice wins over NO_COLOR and TERM. Bold, inverse
and glyphs can remain without color. The canonical baseline includes known gaps,
including command-row cues that still depend partly on color.
Keyboard and terminal behavior
NMSh actions are intended to remain keyboard reachable. Mouse interaction adds shortcuts, not a second required input path. The host must forward the relevant key combinations; Ctrl+J is the fallback when Shift+Enter is unavailable.
Screen readers: not a guarantee
NMSh redraws alternate-screen terminal frames. Screen-reader behavior depends on the terminal and assistive technology and has not been verified. Text-carried state is useful, but does not establish full screen-reader accessibility.
This website separately provides semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, local search, light/dark themes and reduced-motion styling. Website accessibility does not imply the terminal application has the same assistive-technology support.