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