[BUG] --ax-screen-reader: AskUserQuestion option text is truncated at 300 characters ("+N more characters") with no way to view it in full

What happens

I run Claude Code with --ax-screen-reader. In this accessibility mode, the numbered AskUserQuestion list truncates each option line at about 300 characters and ends it with … +N more characters. There is no way to view the rest of the text: it is not printed anywhere and no key expands it. When options differ only in the hidden part, I cannot make an informed choice.

The cap applies to the whole line, label — description. In the example below, option 1 is 41 characters of label and separator plus 259 characters of description, which is 300 in total.

Output as read in the terminal

 ☐ Rollout
> Baseline test: which rollout strategy should the production deployment use for the new billing service?
1. Canary rollout with automatic rollback — Deploy the new billing service to five percent of production traffic first,
watch error rates, latency percentiles, and payment-failure metrics for at least thirty minutes, then automatically promote
to fifty percent and finally one hundred percent if every h … +130 more characters
2. Blue-green cutover during the weekend maintenance window — Stand up a complete duplicate of the production environment
running the new billing service, run the full regression and reconciliation suite against a replayed copy of live traffic,
then switch the load balancer over in a single step on Sat … +111 more characters
3. Short option — Short description.
4. Other
5. Chat about this
Select with numbers [1-5]. Then Enter to submit or Escape to cancel:

Expected

Accessibility mode should not truncate option text. --ax-screen-reader already replaces the visual interface with plain, linear text printed into scrollback, so there is no layout constraint that needs a cut, and the user has no way to see what was removed. Each option should be printed in full. If some limit is still needed, there should at least be a way to read the rest, such as a setting that raises the cap or a key that expands the option.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start claude --ax-screen-reader.
2. Have the model call AskUserQuestion with options whose label plus description is longer than 300 characters. For example, ask it to compare deployment strategies and write a full sentence or two for each option.
3. Read the numbered list.

Environment

• Claude Code 2.1.296
• Started with --ax-screen-reader
• Terminal: Windows Terminal, running Claude Code in WSL2 (Linux 6.18.40.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2)
• Software I use alongside it: NVDA 2026.2. The truncation happens in Claude Code's own output, before any screen reader reads it.

Related

• #88839: AskUserQuestion option picker is unusable with NVDA screen reader
• #67113: long option text cut off in the normal dialog (closed)