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