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