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Problem you have encountered:

• The Cloud Shell automatically enables the Cloud SDK accessibility/screen_reader option, which parses tables as lists, which might be confusing as other environments do not display this behavior, and no further information is provided as an output stating that the output of a given command, such as gcloud compute instances list --format="table[box,title=Instances](name:sort=1, zone:label=zone, status) is displayed in accessibility mode.

Steps to reproduce:

• Use the Cloud Shell in your GCP Project

• Try to display a list as a table by setting the format flag with the table attribute:

gcloud compute regions list --format="table[box,title=Regions](name:sort=1)

A list is displayed by default instead of a table.

Other information (workarounds you have tried, documentation consulted, etc):

• This setting can be changed by executing the following command:

gcloud config set accessibility/screen_reader false

In order for this to persist in between sessions, ephemeral mode should be disabled and you should set the above mentioned command in the $HOME/.bashrc file.

This feature request has already been passed on to the product team.