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 of these helps everyone use the app? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) fast-flashing lights (c) big touch targets (d) tiny tap areas
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2.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 19 px
Footer: 22 px
Menu: 10 px
Title: 21 px (a) Body text (b) Menu (c) Title (d) Footer -
3.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 11 px
Footer: 10 px
Label: 22 px - 4.♿ What should every icon-only button have for screen readers? (a) a sound (b) a long animation (c) a text label (d) a bright colour
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5.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 9 px
Title: 25 px
Caption: 20 px (a) Caption (b) Title (c) Label - 6.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) icons with no labels (b) sudden loud sounds (c) fast-flashing lights (d) text that can grow
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) colour as the only clue (b) big touch targets (c) labels on every icon (d) text that can grow
- 8.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) colour as the only clue (b) fast-flashing lights (c) strong colour contrast (d) sudden loud sounds
- 9.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: text that can grow? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 10.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: labels on every icon? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 11.True or false: “strong colour contrast” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 12.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) fast-flashing lights (c) text that can grow (d) labels on every icon
- 13.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: fast-flashing lights? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) labels on every icon (b) big touch targets (c) icons with no labels (d) text that can grow
- 15.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: sudden loud sounds? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
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16.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Menu: 19 px
Title: 14 px
Label: 19 px
Caption: 17 px (a) Title (b) Menu (c) Caption (d) Label -
17.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 14 px
Menu: 16 px
Hint: 10 px -
18.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 13 px
Label: 20 px
Title: 26 px
Hint: 25 px
Menu: 22 px (a) Hint (b) Label (c) Title (d) Caption - 19.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 20.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) big touch targets (c) labels on every icon (d) sudden loud sounds
- 21.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: captions on videos? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) icons with no labels (b) fast-flashing lights (c) tiny tap areas (d) labels on every icon
- 23.True or false: “icons with no labels” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 24.♿ A screen has 11 icon buttons. Only 2 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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25.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 9 px
Hint: 16 px
Body text: 23 px (a) Footer (b) Body text (c) Hint - 26.True or false: “big touch targets” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 27.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) colour-blind users (b) fast typists (c) the server (d) the battery
- 28.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: tiny tap areas? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) captions on videos (c) text that can grow (d) tiny tap areas
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30.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 15 px
Menu: 17 px
Body text: 15 px
Hint: 22 px -
31.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 13 px
Label: 20 px
Hint: 18 px - 32.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 33.♿ Accessibility means an app works for ___. (a) everyone (b) nobody (c) only experts (d) only the coder
- 34.True or false: “labels on every icon” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
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35.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 15 px
Menu: 14 px
Body text: 12 px
Hint: 18 px
Label: 22 px - 36.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) to slow them down (b) so anyone can follow (c) to hide the sound (d) to add colour
- 37.True or false: “text that can grow” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 38.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) text that can grow (b) labels on every icon (c) icons with no labels (d) big touch targets
- 39.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 40.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) big touch targets (c) colour as the only clue (d) strong colour contrast
Answer key
- big touch targets
- Menu
- 2
- a text label
- Label
- text that can grow
- colour as the only clue
- strong colour contrast
- helps everyone
- helps everyone
- False
- fast-flashing lights
- makes it harder
- icons with no labels
- makes it harder
- Title
- 2
- Caption
- helps everyone
- sudden loud sounds
- helps everyone
- labels on every icon
- False
- 9
- Footer
- True
- colour-blind users
- makes it harder
- tiny tap areas
- 2
- 1
- makes it harder
- everyone
- False
- 3
- so anyone can follow
- False
- icons with no labels
- helps everyone
- colour as the only clue
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