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