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# UIAccessibilityPriority

Constants that specify priorities for accessibility announcements.

```
struct UIAccessibilityPriority
```

## Overview

Use these constants either with the <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScopes/AccessibilityAttributes/accessibilitySpeechAnnouncementPriority> property of <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Foundation/AttributedString>, or with the [`UIAccessibilitySpeechAttributeAnnouncementPriority`](/documentation/UIKit/UIAccessibilitySpeechAttributeAnnouncementPriority) attributed key. For example, the following code shows how to create an announcement with a [`high`](/documentation/UIKit/UIAccessibilityPriority/high) announcement priority:

```swift
let highPriorityAnnouncement = NSAttributedString(string: "Camera active", attributes:
[NSAttributedString.Key.accessibilitySpeechAnnouncementPriority: UIAccessibilityPriority.high])
```

## Topics

### Choosing a priority

[`high`](/documentation/UIKit/UIAccessibilityPriority/high)

A high-priority announcement that interrupts other speech and isn’t interruptible after it starts.

[`default`](/documentation/UIKit/UIAccessibilityPriority/default)

A default-priority announcement that interrupts existing speech, but is interruptible if a new speech utterance starts.

[`low`](/documentation/UIKit/UIAccessibilityPriority/low)

A low-priority announcement that the system queues and speaks after other speech utterances are complete.

### Creating a priority

[`init(rawValue:)`](/documentation/UIKit/UIAccessibilityPriority/init(rawValue:))

Creates a priority structure with the specified raw value.


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