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