App Dev Worksheet: Accessibility
Developer's tip (Design for everyone): Our rule: text is at least 16 px; every icon has a text label for screen readers. Add captions to videos; never use colour as the only clue. Big touch targets and strong contrast help everyone.
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- 1.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) big touch targets (b) text that can grow (c) colour as the only clue (d) strong colour contrast
- 2.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) the server (b) the battery (c) fast typists (d) colour-blind users
- 3.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) reads the screen aloud (b) takes photos (c) plays music (d) makes text tiny
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4.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Menu: 18 px
Caption: 14 px
Footer: 19 px
Title: 25 px (a) Menu (b) Footer (c) Title (d) Caption -
5.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 25 px
Label: 10 px
Footer: 24 px (a) Body text (b) Footer (c) Label -
6.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 17 px
Hint: 18 px
Label: 22 px
Body text: 11 px
Menu: 21 px - 7.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 8.True or false: “text that can grow” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
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9.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 27 px
Title: 17 px
Hint: 14 px
Footer: 19 px (a) Footer (b) Label (c) Hint (d) Title - 10.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 11.♿ A screen has 9 icon buttons. Only 6 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 12.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) text that can grow (b) labels on every icon (c) strong colour contrast (d) tiny tap areas
- 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) text that can grow (b) big touch targets (c) sudden loud sounds (d) strong colour contrast
- 14.True or false: “captions on videos” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
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15.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 15 px
Title: 23 px
Caption: 24 px
Footer: 10 px
Body text: 23 px - 16.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: labels on every icon? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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17.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Menu: 18 px
Title: 10 px
Caption: 21 px
Label: 23 px (a) Label (b) Caption (c) Menu (d) Title - 18.♿ What should every icon-only button have for screen readers? (a) a long animation (b) a sound (c) a text label (d) a bright colour
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19.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 18 px
Menu: 24 px
Body text: 17 px
Title: 20 px
Footer: 9 px (a) Footer (b) Body text (c) Menu (d) Caption - 20.True or false: “fast-flashing lights” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 21.True or false: “strong colour contrast” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 22.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) fast-flashing lights (b) colour as the only clue (c) tiny tap areas (d) captions on videos
- 23.♿ A screen has 8 icon buttons. Only 3 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 24.♿ A screen has 12 icon buttons. Only 10 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 25.♿ A screen has 12 icon buttons. Only 3 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 26.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: colour as the only clue? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 27.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) fast-flashing lights (b) sudden loud sounds (c) text that can grow (d) icons with no labels
- 28.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: sudden loud sounds? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) labels on every icon (c) colour as the only clue (d) icons with no labels
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) big touch targets (b) tiny tap areas (c) strong colour contrast (d) captions on videos
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) text that can grow (c) labels on every icon (d) fast-flashing lights
- 32.♿ A screen has 7 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 33.True or false: “fast-flashing lights” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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34.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 27 px
Menu: 19 px
Caption: 27 px
Body text: 9 px (a) Caption (b) Body text (c) Title (d) Menu - 35.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 36.♿ A screen has 6 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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37.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 17 px
Hint: 12 px
Body text: 15 px
Title: 21 px
Caption: 19 px -
38.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 11 px
Body text: 22 px
Hint: 17 px - 39.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) captions on videos (c) fast-flashing lights (d) strong colour contrast
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40.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 10 px
Footer: 15 px
Caption: 23 px
Answer key
- colour as the only clue
- colour-blind users
- reads the screen aloud
- Caption
- Label
- 1
- helps everyone
- False
- Hint
- makes it harder
- 3
- tiny tap areas
- sudden loud sounds
- False
- 2
- helps everyone
- Title
- a text label
- Footer
- True
- True
- captions on videos
- 5
- 2
- 9
- makes it harder
- text that can grow
- makes it harder
- labels on every icon
- tiny tap areas
- fast-flashing lights
- 6
- False
- Body text
- helps everyone
- 5
- 2
- 1
- fast-flashing lights
- 2
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