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