Accessibility

Everything in Kubermeister can be reached from the keyboard, and the parts that change on their own say so to a screen reader. The keys themselves are listed under keyboard shortcuts.

Moving through the window

Tab goes through the window in the order it is laid out: the sidebar, the top bar, then the screen. The first stop is a Skip to content button, which shows only while it has focus; Return on it moves focus to the screen itself, past the sidebar and top bar.

Whatever has focus from the keyboard is outlined in the theme’s accent colour. The outline shows for the keyboard only, not for a click.

In a list, Tab reaches the column headings, which sort the list, then in each row its selection checkbox, where the list has one, and the link in its Name column, which opens the object. In a detail page the row of tabs is one stop: the arrow keys move between them, and the next Tab goes to the open tab.

What a screen reader hears

• Status dots that stand alone, such as the cluster’s health on the context selector or an unusable context in its menu, are read by what they mean. A dot beside a word that already says it, as in every status badge, is skipped.
• The context selector is read as the Kubernetes context control, followed by the context’s name and the cluster’s health.
• Notifications are read as they appear.
• A log console says when it switches between following, not following and a snapshot. The line count is not read on every change, since it changes with every batch of lines.
• The Shell tab says when a shell is opening, when it is open, when the session ends, and any error it ends with. The terminal itself is drawn on a canvas and is not read.
• A port forward reads its status as it changes, such as the local address it listens on or the error that stopped it.
• A drain reads each pod as it is evicted, and the result at the end.
• Meters, such as a list’s CPU and memory columns, are read as their percentage.

Reduced motion

When the operating system is set to reduce motion (Reduce motion in macOS’s Accessibility settings, Animation effects off in Windows, or the desktop’s own setting on Linux), Kubermeister stops its own animations: dialogs and menus appear without transitions, the Live dot in a log console stops pulsing, spinners stand still and the shell’s cursor stops blinking. The charts never animate.