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