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