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.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: sudden loud sounds? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 3.True or false: “labels on every icon” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 4.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) colour as the only clue (c) text that can grow (d) strong colour contrast
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5.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 27 px
Menu: 14 px
Body text: 27 px (a) Title (b) Body text (c) Menu - 6.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: captions on videos? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 7.♿ Accessibility means an app works for ___. (a) everyone (b) nobody (c) only experts (d) only the coder
- 8.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) colour as the only clue (b) tiny tap areas (c) fast-flashing lights (d) text that can grow
- 9.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) to slow them down (b) to hide the sound (c) to add colour (d) so anyone can follow
- 10.True or false: “colour as the only clue” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) big touch targets (b) captions on videos (c) strong colour contrast (d) colour as the only clue
- 12.True or false: “labels on every icon” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 13.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) the battery (b) colour-blind users (c) fast typists (d) the server
- 14.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) colour as the only clue (b) icons with no labels (c) tiny tap areas (d) labels on every icon
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) strong colour contrast (c) fast-flashing lights (d) icons with no labels
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16.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 27 px
Title: 13 px
Label: 19 px
Hint: 27 px
Body text: 19 px (a) Hint (b) Label (c) Footer (d) Title -
17.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 15 px
Caption: 12 px
Hint: 15 px
Body text: 18 px
Title: 23 px -
18.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 11 px
Menu: 27 px
Hint: 22 px
Label: 16 px (a) Label (b) Body text (c) Menu (d) Hint -
19.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 23 px
Body text: 10 px
Label: 20 px
Title: 24 px
Caption: 24 px (a) Body text (b) Label (c) Title (d) Footer - 20.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: labels on every icon? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 21.♿ What should every icon-only button have for screen readers? (a) a text label (b) a bright colour (c) a long animation (d) a sound
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22.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 15 px
Caption: 20 px
Footer: 10 px
Hint: 23 px
Label: 23 px - 23.♿ A screen has 10 icon buttons. Only 5 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 24.True or false: “strong colour contrast” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
- 25.True or false: “text that can grow” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 26.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) text that can grow (c) tiny tap areas (d) strong colour contrast
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27.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 24 px
Menu: 13 px
Body text: 24 px
Hint: 28 px (a) Body text (b) Title (c) Hint (d) Menu - 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) labels on every icon (c) captions on videos (d) sudden loud sounds
- 29.♿ A screen has 11 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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30.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 17 px
Hint: 23 px
Body text: 16 px
Footer: 19 px - 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) big touch targets (b) tiny tap areas (c) icons with no labels (d) sudden loud sounds
- 32.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: tiny tap areas? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 33.True or false: “sudden loud sounds” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 34.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) strong colour contrast (c) big touch targets (d) sudden loud sounds
- 35.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) captions on videos (c) icons with no labels (d) tiny tap areas
- 36.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
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37.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 21 px
Label: 16 px
Caption: 11 px - 38.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) fast-flashing lights (c) big touch targets (d) text that can grow
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39.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 17 px
Menu: 10 px
Label: 21 px (a) Footer (b) Menu (c) Label - 40.♿ A screen has 8 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
Answer key
- helps everyone
- makes it harder
- False
- colour as the only clue
- Menu
- helps everyone
- everyone
- text that can grow
- so anyone can follow
- False
- colour as the only clue
- True
- colour-blind users
- labels on every icon
- strong colour contrast
- Title
- 3
- Body text
- Body text
- helps everyone
- a text label
- 2
- 5
- True
- False
- tiny tap areas
- Menu
- sudden loud sounds
- 10
- 0
- big touch targets
- makes it harder
- False
- sudden loud sounds
- captions on videos
- makes it harder
- 1
- fast-flashing lights
- Menu
- 7
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