---
title: allowsAccessibilityBackgroundSounds
framework: automaticassessmentconfiguration
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: automaticassessmentconfiguration/aeassessmentconfiguration/allowsaccessibilitybackgroundsounds
---

# allowsAccessibilityBackgroundSounds

A Boolean value that indicates whether to allow Background Sounds during an assessment.

## Declaration

```swift
var allowsAccessibilityBackgroundSounds: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Users can enable Background Sounds in the Settings app (Accessibility > Audio & Visual > Background Sounds) to play ambient sounds that can mask unwanted environmental noise. An assessment session disables Background Sounds by default, but you can allow it by setting allowsAccessibilityBackgroundSounds to true in the AEAssessmentConfiguration instance that you use to initialize a session.