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