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