Android's announceForAccessibility is deprecated; what should React Native do?

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announceForAccessibility is effectively an escape hatch for developers to tell the system screen reader to read out some piece of information. On android, this depends on announceForAccessibility, which is deprecated.

Should react native deprecate this method as well, or should the Android implementation change to use a live region to generate the same effect (similar to usage of aria-live on the web for announcers like the NextJS route announcer)?

I can see arguments for either. There are good reasons to deprecate the method entirely, mainly that there is foot-gun potential to directly sending announcements through the screen reader and instead things like accessibilityState and live regions should be used. On the other hand, it has legitimate uses as a stop-gap for when real system functionality impacts users in negative ways, such as the use in react native itself to announce unselections of views.

There may be other options as well, like expanding the accessibility props to allow for communicating error states.