Accessibility

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Tracks Phase 5.1 — Accessibility from docs/SPEC.md §5.

Goal

Make Kite usable for people who rely on assistive tech, low-vision setups, and reduced-motion environments.

Scope

• Screen-reader compatible mode — structured text output, no animations (renders state as plain readable text rather than graphical widgets/sparklines)
• High-contrast theme
• Colorblind-safe themes — deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia friendly palettes
• Configurable minimum contrast ratio — enforce/clamp foreground-background contrast
• Reduced-motion mode — disable animations/transitions

Notes

• Themes integrate with the existing theming engine (src/ui/theme.rs, 11 built-in themes today).
• Reduced-motion / screen-reader mode should be toggleable via config and ideally CLI flag, consistent with existing --theme / --layout flags.