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