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) icons with no labels (b) strong colour contrast (c) sudden loud sounds (d) fast-flashing lights
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2.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 18 px
Footer: 23 px
Hint: 16 px
Menu: 18 px
Title: 14 px (a) Hint (b) Footer (c) Label (d) Title -
3.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 12 px
Body text: 18 px
Title: 26 px
Hint: 28 px
Caption: 17 px (a) Label (b) Body text (c) Hint (d) Title - 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) labels on every icon (b) fast-flashing lights (c) big touch targets (d) captions on videos
- 5.True or false: “labels on every icon” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 6.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) icons with no labels (b) sudden loud sounds (c) strong colour contrast (d) tiny tap areas
- 7.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) makes text tiny (b) takes photos (c) reads the screen aloud (d) plays music
- 8.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) so anyone can follow (b) to add colour (c) to slow them down (d) to hide the sound
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9.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 14 px
Body text: 20 px
Hint: 27 px (a) Title (b) Body text (c) Hint - 10.True or false: “fast-flashing lights” makes the app harder to use. (a) True (b) False
- 11.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) tiny tap areas (c) text that can grow (d) big touch targets
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) big touch targets (b) captions on videos (c) labels on every icon (d) tiny tap areas
- 13.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) fast-flashing lights (c) big touch targets (d) colour as the only clue
- 15.♿ A screen has 5 icon buttons. Only 3 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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16.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 13 px
Body text: 12 px
Title: 21 px - 17.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: captions on videos? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
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18.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 19 px
Caption: 15 px
Label: 11 px
Footer: 10 px
Hint: 16 px -
19.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 10 px
Hint: 27 px
Title: 21 px (a) Hint (b) Caption (c) Title -
20.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 27 px
Label: 9 px
Hint: 23 px
Caption: 22 px (a) Hint (b) Caption (c) Title (d) Label - 21.♿ 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
- 22.True or false: “big touch targets” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 23.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) labels on every icon (c) text that can grow (d) fast-flashing lights
- 24.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: sudden loud sounds? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 25.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) labels on every icon (b) colour as the only clue (c) tiny tap areas (d) sudden loud sounds
- 26.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) big touch targets (b) strong colour contrast (c) icons with no labels (d) text that can grow
- 27.♿ A screen has 6 icon buttons. Only 4 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 28.♿ A screen has 12 icon buttons. Only 1 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) text that can grow (c) captions on videos (d) icons with no labels
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30.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Caption: 19 px
Menu: 10 px
Title: 23 px - 31.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: big touch targets? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 32.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) captions on videos (b) big touch targets (c) text that can grow (d) sudden loud sounds
- 33.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: tiny tap areas? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 34.True or false: “captions on videos” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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35.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Hint: 21 px
Caption: 18 px
Body text: 19 px
Footer: 18 px - 36.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 37.♿ A screen has 8 icon buttons. Only 2 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 38.True or false: “strong colour contrast” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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39.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 19 px
Footer: 13 px
Body text: 12 px
Hint: 20 px - 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) colour as the only clue (b) captions on videos (c) text that can grow (d) labels on every icon
Answer key
- strong colour contrast
- Title
- Label
- fast-flashing lights
- False
- strong colour contrast
- reads the screen aloud
- so anyone can follow
- Title
- True
- tiny tap areas
- tiny tap areas
- helps everyone
- big touch targets
- 2
- 2
- helps everyone
- 3
- Caption
- Label
- a text label
- True
- fast-flashing lights
- makes it harder
- labels on every icon
- icons with no labels
- 2
- 11
- icons with no labels
- 1
- helps everyone
- sudden loud sounds
- makes it harder
- True
- 0
- makes it harder
- 6
- True
- 2
- colour as the only clue
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