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