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