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) captions on videos (b) big touch targets (c) labels on every icon (d) fast-flashing lights
- 2.♿ 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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3.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 13 px
Menu: 16 px
Footer: 28 px
Hint: 16 px (a) Menu (b) Title (c) Hint (d) Footer - 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) icons with no labels (c) captions on videos (d) colour as the only clue
- 5.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: labels on every icon? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 6.♿ A screen has 7 icon buttons. Only 6 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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7.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 14 px
Hint: 18 px
Label: 23 px
Caption: 13 px
Menu: 16 px - 8.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) big touch targets (b) text that can grow (c) fast-flashing lights (d) strong colour contrast
- 9.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: colour as the only clue? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 10.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) colour as the only clue (b) icons with no labels (c) labels on every icon (d) sudden loud sounds
- 11.True or false: “text that can grow” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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12.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 17 px
Hint: 20 px
Menu: 26 px
Footer: 9 px
Body text: 19 px (a) Menu (b) Footer (c) Hint (d) Caption -
13.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Hint: 27 px
Body text: 16 px
Footer: 26 px
Title: 28 px
Caption: 13 px (a) Footer (b) Caption (c) Body text (d) Hint -
14.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 23 px
Body text: 13 px
Caption: 14 px - 15.♿ 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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16.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Menu: 12 px
Hint: 22 px
Caption: 20 px - 17.♿ 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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18.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 23 px
Menu: 20 px
Body text: 12 px
Caption: 20 px
Hint: 11 px -
19.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 21 px
Body text: 17 px
Title: 14 px (a) Caption (b) Body text (c) Title -
20.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 19 px
Body text: 10 px
Menu: 19 px
Caption: 27 px
Hint: 18 px (a) Footer (b) Caption (c) Menu (d) Body text - 21.♿ What should every icon-only button have for screen readers? (a) a long animation (b) a sound (c) a text label (d) a bright colour
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22.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 16 px
Menu: 14 px
Title: 23 px (a) Title (b) Label (c) Menu - 23.True or false: “colour as the only clue” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 24.True or false: “text that can grow” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
- 25.♿ Showing right or wrong only in red and green is a problem for ___. (a) the server (b) the battery (c) colour-blind users (d) fast typists
- 26.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: text that can grow? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) big touch targets (b) labels on every icon (c) tiny tap areas (d) strong colour contrast
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28.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 11 px
Label: 13 px
Title: 23 px
Caption: 18 px - 29.True or false: “sudden loud sounds” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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30.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 21 px
Body text: 17 px
Hint: 24 px - 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) tiny tap areas (c) labels on every icon (d) fast-flashing lights
- 32.♿ Accessibility means an app works for ___. (a) only the coder (b) everyone (c) only experts (d) nobody
- 33.♿ A screen has 10 icon buttons. Only 6 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 34.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: tiny tap areas? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
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35.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 10 px
Footer: 21 px
Caption: 21 px - 36.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
- 37.♿ A screen has 10 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) True (b) False
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39.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Footer: 27 px
Menu: 12 px
Caption: 23 px
Title: 20 px (a) Caption (b) Menu (c) Title (d) Footer -
40.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Caption: 13 px
Label: 22 px
Body text: 18 px (a) Label (b) Caption (c) Body text
Answer key
- fast-flashing lights
- helps everyone
- Title
- captions on videos
- helps everyone
- 1
- 2
- fast-flashing lights
- makes it harder
- labels on every icon
- True
- Footer
- Caption
- 2
- reads the screen aloud
- 1
- makes it harder
- 2
- Title
- Body text
- a text label
- Menu
- True
- False
- colour-blind users
- helps everyone
- tiny tap areas
- 2
- False
- 0
- labels on every icon
- everyone
- 4
- makes it harder
- 1
- helps everyone
- 8
- True
- Menu
- Caption
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