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