---
title: announcement
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: uikit/uiaccessibility/notification/announcement
---

# announcement

A notification that an app posts when it needs to convey an announcement to the assistive app.

## Declaration

```swift
nonisolated static let announcement: UIAccessibility.Notification
```

## Discussion

Discussion This notification includes a parameter that is an NSString object that contains the announcement. An assistive app outputs the announcement string in the parameter. Use this notification to provide accessibility information about events that don’t update the app’s UI, or that update the UI only briefly. Post this notification using the post(notification:argument:) function.

## See Also

### VoiceOver

- [voiceOverStatusDidChangeNotification](uikit/uiaccessibility/voiceoverstatusdidchangenotification.md)
- [announcementDidFinishNotification](uikit/uiaccessibility/announcementdidfinishnotification.md)
- [UIAccessibilityVoiceOverStatusChanged](uikit/uiaccessibilityvoiceoverstatuschanged.md)