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