Screen reader mode replaces the TUI with linear labeled text — also the cleanest way to log an agent session

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Claude Code's new screen reader mode drops boxes, spinners, and in-place redraws in favor of plain labeled lines read in order by VoiceOver or NVDA, enabled per-session with `claude --ax-screen-reader`, per-shell with `CLAUDE_AX_SCREEN_READER`, or globally with the `axScreenReader` setting. Beyond its accessibility purpose, this is the most useful non-obvious application: linear, redraw-free output is far easier to pipe, diff, and archive than a repainting TUI, so it's a better capture format for auditing or replaying long agent runs than scraping the visual interface.