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: colour as the only clue? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
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2.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 17 px
Hint: 24 px
Footer: 9 px
Title: 22 px (a) Hint (b) Title (c) Body text (d) Footer - 3.♿ A screen has 5 icon buttons. Only 3 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 4.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) labels on every icon (b) big touch targets (c) captions on videos (d) icons with no labels
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5.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Menu: 19 px
Body text: 16 px
Caption: 10 px
Footer: 23 px (a) Footer (b) Caption (c) Body text (d) Menu - 6.♿ What should every icon-only button have for screen readers? (a) a long animation (b) a bright colour (c) a text label (d) a sound
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7.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 11 px
Caption: 28 px
Body text: 21 px
Footer: 17 px (a) Footer (b) Title (c) Body text (d) Caption -
8.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Body text: 12 px
Menu: 12 px
Label: 24 px
Caption: 10 px
Hint: 13 px - 9.♿ A screen has 10 icon buttons. Only 3 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
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10.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Body text: 23 px
Caption: 21 px
Title: 12 px
Footer: 26 px (a) Footer (b) Body text (c) Title (d) Caption - 11.True or false: “captions on videos” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 12.True or false: “icons with no labels” makes the app harder to use. (a) False (b) True
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13.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 23 px
Hint: 25 px
Footer: 10 px
Body text: 24 px (a) Hint (b) Footer (c) Body text (d) Title - 14.♿ Why add captions to videos? (a) so anyone can follow (b) to hide the sound (c) to slow them down (d) to add colour
- 15.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) big touch targets (b) captions on videos (c) fast-flashing lights (d) labels on every icon
- 16.True or false: “labels on every icon” helps everyone use the app. (a) False (b) True
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17.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Title: 19 px
Caption: 22 px
Menu: 12 px (a) Menu (b) Caption (c) Title - 18.♿ 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
- 19.True or false: “big touch targets” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) strong colour contrast (b) captions on videos (c) text that can grow (d) icons with no labels
- 21.True or false: “sudden loud sounds” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
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22.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Footer: 18 px
Title: 24 px
Label: 20 px
Body text: 19 px
Menu: 19 px - 23.♿ A screen has 12 icon buttons. Only 8 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 24.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: strong colour contrast? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
- 25.Which of these makes the app harder to use? (a) strong colour contrast (b) text that can grow (c) colour as the only clue (d) captions on videos
- 26.True or false: “big touch targets” makes the app harder to use. (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?
Footer: 24 px
Hint: 22 px
Caption: 15 px
Body text: 20 px -
28.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Title: 20 px
Label: 11 px
Caption: 18 px - 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tiny tap areas (b) colour as the only clue (c) labels on every icon (d) sudden loud sounds
- 30.♿ What does a screen reader do? (a) makes text tiny (b) plays music (c) takes photos (d) reads the screen aloud
- 31.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) sudden loud sounds (b) fast-flashing lights (c) big touch targets (d) icons with no labels
- 32.Which of these helps everyone use the app? (a) colour as the only clue (b) labels on every icon (c) tiny tap areas (d) fast-flashing lights
- 33.♿ A screen has 11 icon buttons. Only 9 of them have a text label for screen readers. How many still need a label?
- 34.♿ 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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35.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. Which text on this screen is too small?
Label: 22 px
Body text: 23 px
Caption: 9 px (a) Body text (b) Caption (c) Label - 36.True or false: “text that can grow” helps everyone use the app. (a) True (b) False
- 37.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: fast-flashing lights? (a) helps everyone (b) makes it harder
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38.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Caption: 10 px
Hint: 16 px
Menu: 16 px -
39.♿ Our rule: text is at least 16 px. How many texts on this screen are too small?
Label: 14 px
Body text: 16 px
Title: 19 px - 40.♿ Does this help everyone, or make the app harder to use: icons with no labels? (a) makes it harder (b) helps everyone
Answer key
- makes it harder
- Footer
- 2
- icons with no labels
- Caption
- a text label
- Title
- 4
- 7
- Title
- True
- True
- Footer
- so anyone can follow
- fast-flashing lights
- True
- Menu
- colour-blind users
- True
- icons with no labels
- False
- 0
- 4
- helps everyone
- colour as the only clue
- False
- 1
- 1
- labels on every icon
- reads the screen aloud
- big touch targets
- labels on every icon
- 2
- helps everyone
- Caption
- True
- makes it harder
- 1
- 1
- makes it harder
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