Comment by bcherny
6 days ago
Hey -- we take accessibility seriously, and want Claude Code to work well for you. This is why we have repurposed verbose mode to do what you want, without the other verbose output. Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
It's well meaning but I think this goes against something like the curb effect. Not a perfect analogy but, verbosity is something you have to opt into here: Everyone benefits from being able to glance at what the agent is up to by default. Nobody greatly benefits from the agent being quiet by default.
If people find it too noisy, they can use the flag or toggle that makes everything quieter.
p.s. Serendipitously I just finished my on-site at anthropic today, hi :)
> we take accessibility seriously
Do you guys have a screen reader user on the dev team?
Is verbose mode the same as the old mode, where only file paths are spoken? Or does it have other text in it? Because I tried to articulate, and may have failed. More text is usually bad for me. It must be consumed linearly. I need specific text.
Quality over quantity
"Is verbose mode the same as the old mode, where only file paths are spoken?" -- yes, this is exactly what the new verbose mode is.
And how to get to the old verbose mode then...?
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