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.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 2.True or false: “colour as the only clue” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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3.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 18 px
Label: 18 px
Menu: 12 px -
4.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 10 px
Hint: 13 px
Title: 13 px - 5.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) tiny tap areas (b) sudden loud sounds (c) text that can grow (d) colour as the only clue
- 6.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 7.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) icons with no labels (b) big touch targets (c) fast-flashing lights (d) tiny tap areas
- 8.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: fast-flashing lights? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 9.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: text that can grow? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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10.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 28 px
Label: 17 px
Caption: 12 px
Hint: 22 px
Footer: 20 px (a) Label (b) Caption (c) Hint (d) Body text - 11.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: colour as the only clue? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 12.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) icons with no labels (b) labels on every icon (c) tiny tap areas (d) sudden loud sounds
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13.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 13 px
Body text: 18 px
Caption: 21 px
Hint: 21 px (a) Label (b) Body text (c) Caption (d) Hint - 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) big touch targets (c) sudden loud sounds (d) text that can grow
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) big touch targets (b) strong colour contrast (c) colour as the only clue (d) text that can grow
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16.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 19 px
Menu: 19 px
Hint: 17 px
Caption: 11 px
Body text: 21 px (a) Menu (b) Caption (c) Label (d) Hint - 17.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 18.True or false: “fast-flashing lights” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 19.♿ A screen has 5 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) fast-flashing lights (b) strong colour contrast (c) captions on videos (d) text that can grow
- 21.True or false: “strong colour contrast” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) colour as the only clue (c) captions on videos (d) icons with no labels
- 23.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) fast-flashing lights (b) strong colour contrast (c) labels on every icon (d) captions on videos
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24.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 24 px
Hint: 24 px
Footer: 14 px
Caption: 13 px - 25.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) plays music (b) makes text tiny (c) reads the screen aloud (d) takes photos
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26.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 20 px
Title: 25 px
Body text: 20 px
Caption: 10 px
Label: 16 px (a) Title (b) Body text (c) Caption (d) Hint - 27.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) labels on every icon (c) colour as the only clue (d) text that can grow
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28.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 11 px
Label: 16 px
Menu: 22 px (a) Body text (b) Label (c) Menu -
29.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 18 px
Title: 25 px
Footer: 9 px (a) Label (b) Footer (c) Title - 30.True or false: “text that can grow” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 31.♿ A screen has 10 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 32.♿ A screen has 11 icon buttons. Only 2 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 33.♿ A screen has 8 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 34.True or false: “tiny tap areas” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 35.True or false: “labels on every icon” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
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36.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 24 px
Footer: 12 px
Hint: 14 px
Title: 18 px
Body text: 14 px -
37.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 24 px
Body text: 16 px
Hint: 12 px
Menu: 12 px
Caption: 24 px - 38.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: tiny tap areas? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
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39.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 19 px
Label: 18 px
Hint: 23 px
Caption: 20 px - 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) colour as the only clue (c) text that can grow (d) fast-flashing lights
Answer key
- helps everyone
- False
- 1
- 3
- text that can grow
- makes it harder
- big touch targets
- makes it harder
- helps everyone
- Caption
- makes it harder
- labels on every icon
- Label
- sudden loud sounds
- colour as the only clue
- Caption
- helps everyone
- True
- 4
- fast-flashing lights
- False
- captions on videos
- fast-flashing lights
- 2
- reads the screen aloud
- Caption
- colour as the only clue
- Body text
- Footer
- True
- 9
- 9
- 7
- False
- False
- 3
- 2
- makes it harder
- 0
- text that can grow
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