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title: Day 77
author: Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats
date: 2022-08-03 17:24
tags: VoiceOver, iOS
categories: ["Accessibility"]
series: ["365 Days iOS Accessibility"]
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It can help to alert the user of something that happened, in a part of the screen that is not currently on focus, and that is not important enough to disrupt the user by moving VoiceOver’s focus to a different place.

It can be useful to announce certain messages like errors or long running tasks that have finished (i.e. a download that finished) or with custom notifications and snack bars.