Low Battery Notification

Is that available in the App store? I'm also wondering if this is an accessibility issue which needs to be brought to Apple's attention?

I let my battery run all the way down to 1 percent this evening, and a notification popped up. But Voiceover still did not read the actual notification. I have tried changing the sound scheme to see if possibly I missed something, but no dice. I just assumed this was the low-battery notification, and flipped on the charger. I did see something about different phrases being spoken and I tried changing those a bit, but that appears to be unrelated. So perhaps I'm missing something here, or perhaps this is just an issue with Voiceover which needs to be addressed. In any case, I'm comfortable at least for the time being going into Menu Extras and manually checking battery status. I'm hopefully talking with my parents this coming week or next weekend about inputting credit card information so that I am able to get these software updates.

I'm revisiting this topic because I've done a little bit of further investigation into this. A sister of mine got an 11-inch Mac Book Air just last week, and she is also a Voiceover user. Nobody else in our area knows Voiceover, aside from the good folks at our Apple store. My sister said the guy helping them was very good, but just as with my experience the store was rather busy and therefore hard to hear Voiceover. So I was designated the trainer for my sister I think until her in-store training. I noticed that her low-battery notification doesn't appear to be read out by Vo either. I have a 13-inch Mac Book and our systems appear to differ slightly in the position of things, but I'm still able to navigate hers with no problem. Just this morning as I was checking my personal email account, I got a Twitter notification which was spoken. Here's what I'm wondering. Is the low-battery notification located in the same area as these other notifications, i.e., the Twitter and Facebook notifications along with the Do Not Disturb feature? I even tried lowering my display brightness to 0 percent, as recommended by Apple but still no dice. I'm perfectly willing to write to accessibility@apple.com about this. I'm not angry here, just a bit puzzled. After all, everything else on my Mac has been working well.

Just wanted to update this thread. I think I may have discovered the audible low-battery alert. I was on Twitter just a few minutes ago when one of those notification images popped up. Thinking this might be the low-battery one, I went into Menu Extras and checked the status. Voiceover then said "alert from System UI Server," and then read out the low-battery status. I escaped out of the Menu Extras, and the alert was spoken again. This was at 2 percent. So it appears that I have to be in Menu Extras in order to actually hear Voiceover say "low battery." I guess I was expecting this notification to be like the one on my Dell laptop, which actually went off twice and played a sound in addition to announcing the battery level. But this is rather interesting. I wonder if there's a way to hear more than one low-battery alert on here. Guess I'll have to try it out. I'm kind of afraid to actually go into the battery settings themselves, because I don't want to mess something up. I'll also try and investigate the Low-Battery Monitor.